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50 years ago, the voting rights act was passed and was meant to end racial discrimination in voting. As Matt Galka tells us, many believe the work of the civil rights movement isn’t finished.

It was hopeful, and there was a call to action for the hundreds marching to Florida’s Capitol on Monday. Earlene Preston says the activism shouldn’t be reserved for just Martin Luther King Jr day, and shouldn’t be just about one race.

“All of us are just as one, and when one hurt the other one hurt, it should not be a black or white doing this or doing that,” she said.

Many at the march reflected on the new movie “Selma,” which depicts the bloody marches from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery Alabama in the name of equal voting rights.  State Representative 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, social inequality, or are communities being so different,” said Williams (D-Tallahassee).

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 in there. “We didn’t get any change until you had all of the people come together, and all stand together united as Dr. King said. All good people of good will,” said Landry. Tommy Mitchell, who saw Dr. King speak, 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,” he said.

And for the hundreds of people at the Capitol and millions across the country and world, that dream will never die.