Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, civil rights leaders in Selma continue fight
What would John Lewis do today?
On a Sunday morning 60 years ago, activists rewrote the story of the civil rights movement in their own blood on the streets of Selma, Alabama. State troopers turned their truncheons on a peaceful march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge at the behest of Alabama’s stridently and infamously racist governor George Wallace, protecting Alabama segregation and white supremacy.
George Chidi March 10, 2025
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