In the accompanying video from KTRS the life of Sister Mary Antona Ebo, who died this week at age 93, is remembered.
In 1965, along with five other nuns and 50 St. Louisans, she went to Selma, Alabama and participated in the voting rights march. She was the only African American among the nuns.
She stepped to the podium and said, "I am here because I am a negro, a nun, a Catholic and because I want to bear witnesses.
Fifty years later, Sister Mary Antona Ebo spoke at a prayer vigil in Ferguson.
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