On March 7, we solemnly acknowledge Bloody Sunday – a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, as brave individuals stood up against injustice and fought for the right to vote.
John Lewis led a peaceful march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, demanding voting rights for Black Americans. When Lewis and his followers saw law enforcement, they dropped to their knees and prayed. That's when state troopers and deputized Klansmen on horseback whipped, trampled and beat the marchers. John Lewis bore the scars of that day throughout his life.
Read noted American academic historian, author, and educator Heather Cox Richardson's analysis of the marches and Bloody Sunday here.
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