Prayers for the women's march - Rev. G.H. Caldwell

I have been asked to say a few words at the Women's March in Asbury Park, NJ, today. I will be
remembering the impact my grandmother, mother, 3 sisters, wife and granddaughter had/have
on my life. Also, I will be remembering, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Ella Baker,
Coretta Scott King, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Viola Liuzzo.

Viola Liuzzo? I never met Viola Liuzzo, but she and I were together on March 24, 1965 at the
Catholic City of Jude just outside of Montgomery, Alabama the night before we marched into
Montgomery to end the Selma to Montgomery March. We were at St. Jude for a "Night of
Stars", hosted by Harry Belafonte.

On March 25th as Viola Liuzzo was assisting in transporting Marchers from Selma to the
Montgomery airport she was shot and killed by a member of the Ku Klux Klan. She was a mother
of 5 and was 39 when she was murdered. A member of the Unitarian Universalist Church,
from Detroit. She was white.

May we prayerfully remember women of all races, religions, political perspectives, sexual orientations, gender identities, regions, places of birth, educational and economic circumstances, faith or no religious faith, etc. as we gather in different places re; the Women's
March. "Women (and men) United, can never be defeated!"

Gil Caldwell
Asbury Park, NJ