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The annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee typically draws tens of thousands of people to Selma each year.
They come to commemorate Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery marches in the place where it happened.
Being in the crowd and walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge gives people a sense that they’re a part of the history and the movement.
But that likely won’t be the case this year since large gatherings have been discouraged during the pandemic.
“Because even if people are congregating outside in large numbers, it’s too dangerous for us to risk the possibility of spreading COVID,” said Jubilee Principal Coordinator Drew Glover.