article_snippet: The former and current U.S. leaders and Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama families will join the largest-ever congressional delegation in the Alabama town a day before an annual march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge that salutes the 600 demonstrators who were violently assaulted by Alabama state troopers on March 7, 1965 on what is now known as Bloody Sunday.
article_snippet: The yearly sojourn to Selma, held since 1998 and organized by the Faith and Politics Institute, will be made by 95 members of Congress.
article_snippet: That includes 23 Republicans, the largest group of lawmakers from the political party to attend since the first pilgrimage, according to USA Today.
article_snippet: Terri Sewell, a Democrat, and Martha Roby, a Republican, will lead the delegation, along with Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a participant in the original 1965 march. '
article_snippet: We are very pleased that the Faith and Politics Institute is gathering an unprecedented amount of senators and members of Congress in bipartisan fashion to honor and reflect upon the history of the civil rights movement and the work that still needs to be done,' Rob Liberatore, the Faith and Politics Institute's chairman of the board, told the news publication.
highlights_snippet: The sojourn will also be made by 95 members of Congress - including 23 Republicans, the largest group from the political party to attend since 1998 .