{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20140321050555/http://sewell.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=655", "Congresswoman Sewell Hosts Civil Rights Pilgrimage for 49th Commemoration of the 1965 Edmund Pettus Bridge Crossing", "2014-03-08", "2014", "2014-03", "Democrat", "House", "AL", "Terri Sewell", "S001185", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "This Sunday, Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell is hosting and participating in the 14th Annual Faith and Politics Institute\u2019s Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama. Many Members of Congress will be in attendance, including Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer and Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Congressmen Spencer Bachus, Gregg Harper, and Bennie Thompson are serving as pilgrimage co-hosts with Congresswoman Sewell while Congressman John Lewis is the Pilgrimage Chairman.\u00a0 U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx will serve as the keynote speaker for the annual commemoration service at the Brown Chapel A.M.E Church and will join for the Bridge Crossing reenactment Sunday afternoon.\n\n\t\u201cEach year, I am pleased to welcome my colleagues and friends to the 7th Congressional District to retrace the steps of those who marched unarmed, unafraid across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. I am also looking forward to hosting U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx,\u201d said Rep. Sewell. \u201cThe annual pilgrimage is significant for our nation\u2019s leaders because it reminds us of the importance of never forgetting the sacrifices that were made for America to live up to its ideals of equality and justice for all.\u00a0 I appreciate the Faith and Politics Institute for organizing the pilgrimage for the past 14 years and for their steadfast commitment to familiarizing Members of Congress with the history of the Civil Rights Movement.\u201d\n\n\tThis year\u2019s pilgrimage will begin with visits to historic Civil Rights sites in Mississippi and will conclude with the reenactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on Sunday, March 8, 2014. Participants include Members of Congress, Civil Rights icons, and many community and civic leaders.\u00a0\n\n\t\u00a0\n\n\t\u201cIt is important that we acknowledge that our successes have only been made possible because of the courage of those who marched, prayed and sacrificed in Selma forty-nine years ago. As we commemorate the 49th Anniversary of this historic event, I hope that all those in attendance will leave with a renewed understanding of the significance of our painful past and our role in confronting injustices today,\u201d said Rep. Sewell.\u00a0\n\n\t\u00a0\n\n\t###\n\n\t\u00a0\n\n\tDetails of Congressional Trip:\n\n\tThe 2014 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Mississippi and Alabama is hosted by the Faith and Politics Institute. The Bi-Partisan Congressional Delegation will visit historic landmarks that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. The delegation will arrive in Selma, Alabama on Sunday following two days in the Mississippi cities of Money, Ruleville and Jackson. While in Mississippi, the delegation will learn about Mississippi\u2019s role in the civil rights movement, including events from the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 through Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964. The Pilgrimage will culminate on Sunday with a reenactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge led by Congressman John Lewis. The delegation will be joined in Selma by Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx, and other Civil Rights luminaries and national leaders.\n\n\tAnthony Foxx Background:\n\n\tAnthony Foxx became the 17th U.S. Secretary of Transportation on July 2, 2013. As U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Foxx leads an agency with more than 55,000 employees and a $70 billion budget that oversees air, maritime, and surface transportation.\u00a0 Foxx joined the U.S. Department of Transportation after serving as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 2009 to 2013.\u00a0\u00a0Prior to being elected mayor, Foxx served two terms on the Charlotte City Council.Foxx is an attorney and has spent much of his career in private practice.\u00a0 He also worked as a law clerk for the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, a trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and staff counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary.\u00a0Foxx received a law degree from New York University\u2019s School of Law as a Root-Tilden Scholar, the University\u2019s prestigious public service scholarship.\u00a0 He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in History from Davidson College. 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