Martha Roby in Almanac of American Politics

On Civil Rights: Organized 50th anniversary of Selma Pettus Bridge march

In the house, Sewell hit it off with her classmate from Alabama, Republican Martha Roby. Sewell Gained national prominence and an emotional personal moment during the March 2015 50th anniversary commemoration in Selma of the march to Montgomery, which she and Roby help to organize. The parade across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with led by the Obamas and their two teenage daughters. In an interview with Roll Call, Sewell said that her life story disproves the title of Thomas Wolfe's 1940 novel "You Can't Go Home Again." She embraced her "season of service," but said that she doesn't expect further career moves in politics. "This is it for me." Source: Almanac of American Politics on 2020 AL-2 House race Oct 5, 2015

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