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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Selma, Alabama and the Civil Rights Movement

Selma, Alabama is known far and wide as the site of brutal clubbing and tear gas attack by police on Voting Rights Marchers on March 7,1965.  Eric and I planned to visit the Brown Chapel AME Church and the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of the televised assault on peaceful marchers.  Selma is the home of The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute.










This church is where the
Voting Rights March started.














Statue honoring
Martin Luther King, Jr.










Voting Rights Activists crossed
the bridge and were met 
by police with tear gas
and billy clubs.








Eric is standing at the site
where Bloody Sunday occurred.











This museum is full
of Civil Rights displays.











Eric at the
Civil Rights
Memorial Park















Activist and US Representative











Joshua 4: 21-22










This mural is on
an adjacent store wall.

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