The Road That Required Three Tries
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, demanding voting rights. They made it only to...
This is a contemporary on perseverance and nonviolence, drawing on Hebrews 10:36.
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, demanding voting rights. They made it only to the far side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge before state troopers beat them back with billy clubs and tear gas — a day the nation would call Bloody Sunday. Two days later, Martin Luther King Jr.…
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