The Bridge They Would Not Abandon
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. State troopers...
This is a contemporary on perseverance and nonviolence, drawing on Galatians 6:9.
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. State troopers met them with tear gas and billy clubs. The nation watched in horror as peaceful demonstrators were beaten bloody on what became known as Bloody Sunday. Two days later, Martin Luther King Jr. led a second attempt.…
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