In remembrance this week of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I'm presenting a new work by Southern Visionary Artist Carl Dixon, commemorating a pivotal event in the civil rights leader's campaign to end racial discrimination against African-Americans. In Dixon's carved wood panel painting, "We Shall Overcome," he recreates a scene from the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, when King led thousands of non-violent demonstrators on a 54-mile trek to the Alabama capitol in a campaign to uphold the voting rights of the state's Black community. The Edmund Pettis Bridge leading out of the city of Selma, named for a U.S. Senator from Alabama who was a Confederate general and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, looms deliberately large in the painting. The steel span had been the scene of a bloody confrontation between local police and civil rights activists two weeks before the Selma to Montgomery March. It is depicted here as a bastion of white supremacy breached now by a peaceful column of protestors who are led by the thorn-crowned Christ, walking arm in arm with Martin and Coretta King. More new works from Dixon will be featured in the weeks leading up to Lent (John Kohan)