Marching Backwards? 60 years after Bloody Sunday

Marching Backwards? 60 years after Bloody Sunday

This March, we commemorated the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when voting rights leader John Lewis of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was beaten nearly to death by cops and Klansmen on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.  The youngest marcher, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, was beaten so badly she was put in a hearse to take to the morgue.But when the unconscious Lynda woke up in the hearse, she jumped up, ran out, and ran st…