Marchers believe civil rights movement lives on

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Fifty years ago, the Voting Rights Act was passed in an attempt to end racial discrimination in voting. But many believe the work of the civil rights movement isn't finished.

There was a call to action for the hundreds marching to Florida's Capital on Monday.

Recommended Videos



Many at the march reflected on the new movie "Selma," which depicts the bloody marches from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama in the name of equal voting rights. State Rep. Alan Williams says that fight continues today.

"Folks had to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, there are a lot of folks, even to this day, in their own mind that haven't crossed that bridge, whether it's through racial inequality," Williams said.

Many said it was important for the event to be held in the shadow of the Capitol because that's where the continuing fight for equality would be decided.
 
Voting registration booths were set up around the event. Dale Landry, with the NAACP, said lawmakers need to know people still care about what's going on.

"We didn't get any change until you had all of the people come together and all stand together united as Dr. King said," Landry said. "All good people of good will."
 
Tommy Mitchell, who saw King speak when he was a child, said the solutions to today's problems aren't black and white.

"We're not going to be the country that we're supposed to be until we all work together," Mitchell said.

For the hundreds of people at the Capital, and millions around the world, that dream may never die.