Bloody Sunday 2021: How to experience the civil rights commemoration weekend
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
Posted Mar 05, 2021
Marchers walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee on March 1, 2020. (Shauna Stuart for AL.com)
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The commemoration of Bloody Sunday in Selma will look largely different this year. Sunday, March 7 marks the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day peaceful protesters were brutally attacked and beaten by Alabama state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 while marching for their right to vote.
Events surrounding the commemoration, which normally take place the first weekend of March, will be mostly digital due to efforts to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The weekend’s largest event, the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, will be completely digital this year.
Selma could see economic impact from virtual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee
Selma could see economic impact by having Jubilee go virtual By Courtney Chandler | March 5, 2021 at 10:34 PM CST - Updated March 5 at 10:34 PM
SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Selma Mayor James Perkins says hosting the 56th Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee virtually was the safest option.
“We won’t have vendors on the ground, we won’t issue a vendor permit and we are discouraging anything that would resemble a large crowd gathering,” Perkins said.
That may keep people safe, but it will not bring a large economic impact to the city. Perkins did not give a specific amount, but said the jubilee is considered Selma’s largest tourist event.
Four and a half years ago, Parnham House in Dorset was reduced by fire to a smouldering shell a catastrophe followed by the arrest of its owner, Austrian banker Michael Treichl, for suspected arson, and his subsequent death by drowning in Lake Geneva.
But what promises to be one of Britain s most daring and innovative architectural resurrections is now in hand thanks to the man dubbed the new Leonardo of design .
Thomas Heatherwick is the creator of the stunning cauldron at the 2012 London Olympics, as well as an array of buildings and bridges around the world.
Parnham House in Dorset pictured before a devastating fire reduced it to a smouldering hell
A 500-year-old derelict mansion in Dorset could become a Batman-inspired tourist trap, its new owner has revealed.
James Perkins, 51, has upset locals with his unbelievable plans to turn the shell of an Elizabethan mansion into a space travel and astrology -inspired visitor venue.
Mr Perkins, friend to celebrities including Liam and Noel Gallagher and Kate Moss, made his fortune from raves in the 1990s with his Fantazia empire.
The king of the rave scene turned to property development when he bought and built up Anyhoe Park in Northamptonshire in 2006.
His latest project involves restoring Parnham House near Beaminster - which has suffered two roof collapses since the purchase went through in March last year.