Black Neighborhoods | Day 21 | Do you know what happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge?

Day 21

The Address: The Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma

The Story: "You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light.

Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates.

Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge.

Release all bitterness.

Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won.

Choose confrontation wisely, but when it is your time don't be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice. And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love, if you shine like a beacon for all to see, then the poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation, a world community, and a Beloved Community that is finally at peace with itself. "

Today we step onto hallowed ground. Today we walk in the footsteps of the 600 Black men and women who set out from Brown Chapel AME to march the 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery. Today we tell the story of what happened when they stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge.