LIMITED EDITIONS: Bloody Sunday

Edmund Pettus Bridge - Selma, ALThe Edmund Pettus Bridge has become one of the most hallowed sites in America's civil rights history. The 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama became known as Bloody Sunday because it ended in state troopers beating nonviolent protesters as they tried to cross the bridge with the name Edmund Pettus emblazoned across the steel beam. Aside from being a two-term U.S. senator and a Confederate general, Pettus was a Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. When legislators decided to name the bridge after Pettus in 1940, there was no mistaking the message they wanted to send. Today, Selma is a quiet little town, but the Edmund Pettus Bridge still stands, and is the nations only marker that has gone from honoring white supremacy to becoming a great monument to racial equality. Much has changed since Bloody Sunday, but racism is still alive and well in America…it just looks different.
Bloody Sunday

Edmund Pettus Bridge - Selma, AL 

The Edmund Pettus Bridge has become one of the most hallowed sites in America's civil rights history. The 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama became known as Bloody Sunday because it ended in state troopers beating nonviolent protesters as they tried to cross the bridge with the name Edmund Pettus emblazoned across the steel beam. Aside from being a two-term U.S. senator and a Confederate general, Pettus was a Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. When legislators decided to name the bridge after Pettus in 1940, there was no mistaking the message they wanted to send. Today, Selma is a quiet little town, but the Edmund Pettus Bridge still stands, and is the nations only marker that has gone from honoring white supremacy to becoming a great monument to racial equality. Much has changed since Bloody Sunday, but racism is still alive and well in America…it just looks different.