Call for the State of Alabama and the City of Selma to preserve and restore the Boynton's home on Lapsley Street. Inside the modest turn-of-the-century bungalow, civil rights activists planned the historic Selma-to-Montgomery marches of the 1960's and inked some of what would become the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Five decades have now passed since Bloody Sunday and this Selma landmark sits in shambles.The City of Selma, the State of Alabama, and the Federal Departments which oversee the preservation of National Historic Landmarks has failed to preserve and important part of african american history.
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