51st Bloody Sunday Anniversary Draws Thousands
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Bloody Sunday marked a historic moment in the Civil Rights movement. Even 51 years later, the city of Selma still remembers the time.
Thousands marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to symbolize the march freedom fighters took so long ago. Everyone sang, chanted and helped each other stand together in solidarity.
People of all ages were there, even a few of the freedom fighters who marched across the bridge 51 years ago. The older generation agrees, they are proud to see the youth of today continuing their fight.
“Remember all the sacrifice. It wasn’t in vain. Wasn’t in vain,” said Eugene Crawford. “Life was lost, but new life came in.” Crawford was 12 when he crossed the Edmund Pettus.
“Freedom. Freedom. Freedom, really,” Lee Kennedy said. “For everybody, not just, not just black but everybody really. Cause if you’re not free, we’re not free.” Kennedy was one of the first black bus drivers in Montgomery.
The marchers chanted, “From the back of the bus, to the front of the bridge.” They said it was to show how far the Civil Rights movement has come, and how far it still has to go.
