This is a very difficult post for me. Rev. Orange has touched so many lives, he will be missed by so many people. My blessings go out to his loving family. He was a true leader of leaders. I'm sure his baby girl, Pam, greeted our beloved leader with her shy smile at the gates of heaven.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The Rev. James Orange, a civil rights activist whose 1965 jailing sparked a fatal protest that ultimately led to the famed Selma-to-Montgomery march and the Voting Rights Act, died Saturday at Atlanta's Crawford Long Hospital, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said in a statement. He was 65.
Orange was a native of Birmingham, Alabama, "who resided in southwest Atlanta for four decades while fighting the good fight for equality and social justice for all mankind," said the SCLC, a civil rights organization.
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