Last weekend in Selma, people from across the country are gathering to commemorate 59 years since Bloody Sunday.
On March 7, 1965, troopers and police attacked civil rights activists marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to advocate for voting rights.
Decades later, the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee is held to honor the sacrifices made by civil rights foot soldiers.
It’s truly important as we embark upon the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, that we look at the crossing being the 59th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, and to be able to assemble and come together in unity, bringing individuals from all walks of life, it really speaks volumes of the direction we’re going to go in and carrying on the King legacy. Seeing the very bridge where life-changing history was made is important to our history.
We’re still learning and evolving and having a concept and of history that we as a culture and a nation have been through. Unity is the answer.
