“54 Miles to Home”: The Selma to Montgomery Campsites
October 23, 2024
There is a prevailing narrative about the Civil Rights Movement that focuses on the approximately 600 people who found themselves on a bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. On that day and in that place, they faced unquestionable violence, moments that have forever been captured in photographs and history books.
However, that event, now called Bloody Sunday, was not the entire story.