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Big Ten athletes to tour Alabama civil rights sites in July

FILE - An American flag flies from a porch awning near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a landmark of the voting rights movement, which spans the Alabama River in Selma, Ala., Saturday Jan. 20, 2001. A Big Ten delegation of about 100 athletes and administrators will participate in Big Life Series: Selma to Montgomery. The pilgrimage to one of the key centers of the civil rights movement will be highlighted by a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, which is the site of the 1965 Bloody Sunday attack. (AP Photo/Kevin Glackmeyer, File) FILE -President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Malia and Sasha as well as members of Congress and civil rights leaders make a symbolic walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Saturday, March 7, 2015, in Selma, Ala. A Big Ten delegation of about 100 athletes and administrators will participate in Big Life Series: Selma to Montgomery. The pilgrimage to one of the key centers of the civil rights movement will be highlighted by a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, which is the site of the 1965 Bloody Sunday attack. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)