PAXTON, Mass. - Bettie Mae Fikes, a celebrated icon of the 1960's civil rights movement, met with Anna Maria College students Monday night.

She was born in 1946 in Selma, Alabama and is a founding member of the Freedom Singers who traveled with Martin Luther King Jr.

Fikes became known as "The Voice of Selma" and was there during what’s now known as "Bloody Sunday" and witnessed the chasing down and beating of marchers, including the late Congressman John Lewis.

Fikes now spends time delivering speeches about diversity and civil rights at schools throughout the United States and Canada.