But that didn't break me. I came out of jail more determined than ever. I joined in the Selma voting rights drive and after the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, I went back home to Birmingham. I joined every march of Dr. King. Without women, there wouldn't be a movement.
Women have a tendency to draw people together.
Brown has one daughter and two granddaughters. I'm going to be in the front of the march across that bridge tomorrow. She delivered on her promise the next afternoon. Standing on the steps of Brown Chapel AME church, which had been the headquarters of the movement in 1965, she led the marchers in freedom songs. A convoy of four buses arrived from Atlanta.