There is a bridge in Selma, Alabama, where the 25-year-old John Lewis nearly died during the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march. This bridge, named after Edmund Pettus — a Confederate general and leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan — spans the reality of America’s racist foundations and the dream of a just country.
There is a bridge in Selma, Alabama, where the 25-year-old John Lewis nearly died during the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march. This bridge, named after Edmund Pettus — a Confederate general and leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan — spans the reality of America’s racist foundations and the dream of a just country.
