Sen. Mazie Hirono and Rep. Mark Takai of Hawaii will travel to Selma, Alabama, this weekend to help commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

The delegates are scheduled to join civil rights leaders, President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Saturday in marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Flower lei will be presented to civil rights leaders to commemorate the march, “just as Rev. Abraham Akaka did for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965,” according to Takai’s office.

Dr. Martin Luther King and other civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, March 21, 1965.

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“Fifty years ago this weekend, civil rights leaders marched into history by walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the face of danger to stand up against intolerance and fight injustice,” Hirono said in a press release. “In Hawaii, we are a diverse people of many cultures and have a unique understanding of the dream of Dr. King and the marchers in Selma. We know that while our differences may define us, they should never divide us. …”

Said Takai, “The Freedom Marches — and the progress toward voting rights, civil liberties and tolerance that they helped to bring about — have left their mark on the generations and resonate deeply with us today. …”

According to Takai’s office, he and Hirono will also visit the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Brown Chapel AME Church, the Alabama State Capital and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.

The 2015 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage is organized by the Faith and Politics Institute.