Groups commemorate Bloody Sunday despite COVID-19 pandemic
Groups commemorate Bloody Sunday despite COVID-19 pandemic
By Ashley Bowerman | March 8, 2021 at 6:01 AM CST - Updated March 8 at 9:56 AM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The 56th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee was unlike any other to take place in Selma.
For the first time in decades, there were not the usual thousands of attendees taking part in the commemoration because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bridge crossing reenactment that honors the civil rights activists who were beaten while trying to march to Montgomery in 1965 was largely virtually this year, leaving the Edmund Pettus Bridge unusually empty on the historic day.