Lessons from Selma: Never forget the power of the people
March 7 marks the 61st anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” On that day in 1965, a group of nonviolent demonstrators—led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams—attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., beginning a planned march to the state capital in Montgomery. The march was a pivotal escalation of the Alabama Movement, a […]
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