Blessed Blood on the Bridge
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis knelt in prayer, then stood and walked straight into suffering. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,...
This is a contemporary on sacrifice and courage, drawing on Matthew 5:10-12.
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis knelt in prayer, then stood and walked straight into suffering. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he joined Hosea Williams at the front of six hundred marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They were walking toward Montgomery to demand the right to vote — a right denied to Black citizens through poll taxes, literacy tests, and raw intimidation.…
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