CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. Honored for Contributions to Civil Rights

Last weekend, CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. (right) and his wife Dr. Ruth Cummings (center) received the Passion of the Flame award honoring their contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. The award was presented during the Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma, Ala., which commemorates Bloody Sunday, when law enforcement attacked hundreds of voting rights marchers as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. Rev. Mark Thompson (left) spoke at the event.

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