The Walk That Justice Required

On March 7, 1965, six hundred men and women lined up two abreast at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They carried no weapons. They made no threats. They simply walked. State troopers met them with billy clubs and tear gas. Dozens were injured, including twenty-five-year-old John Lewis, whose skull was fractured. But they walked again. And again. Fifty-four miles from Selma to Montgomery, their feet wore blisters into the pavement and their voices wore conviction into the conscience of a nation.…