Statement by Press Secretary Marsha Catron on Secretary Johnson’s Upcoming Trip to Alabama

The following press release was published by the US Department of Homeland Security on March 4, 2015. It is reproduced in full below.

For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On March 8, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will travel to Selma, Ala. to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery March, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. While in Selma, Secretary Johnson will attend a Sunday morning service at Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church and participate in a commemorative march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Secretary Jeh Johnson

Source: US Department of Homeland Security