The Wednesday leg of the March to Confront White Supremacy ended prematurely with the report of a gun threat in Madison.
The Thursday march, an 18-mile trek from Madison to Culpeper—the longest section of the 10-day march from Charlottesville to Washington—ended with sore feet for most of the marchers.
While one marcher hobbled around the parking lot during a stop to rest south of Culpeper, Stephen Green, a minister from Roselle, N.J., quoted something the Rev. Martin Luther King said more than 50 years ago: “My feet are tired, but my soul is rested.”
But then Green was quick to add, “This [march] is about sacrifice.”
Stephanie Llanes, a human rights attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, led the 23-person protest group up U.S. 29, singing and chanting into a bullhorn as she walked.