A trio of Waterloo civil rights activists will speak on the Wartburg College campus Sunday, March 29, as part of the J.W. Lynes Memorial Lecture in History.

Larry Stumme, Willie Mae Wright and Anna Mae Weems will be the featured speakers for the 1 p.m. panel discussion in White House Business Center 214.

Stumme, pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls, marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on March 9, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, just two days after “Bloody Sunday.”

Wright, who left Mississippi for Waterloo in the ’50s, fought against racial disparity in the Waterloo school district and later served as the second black City Council member.

Weems brought King to Waterloo in 1959 and took an active role in forcing businesses to adhere to government civil rights mandates.  

Started in 2013, the lecture is sponsored by the Wartburg College History Club and Phi Alpha Theta history honor society. It celebrates the memory of James William Lynes Jr., a 1988 Wartburg graduate who died in 2012.