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Voting Rights Museum &
Pettus Bridge
Selma, AL
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| Walking over the Pettus Bridge. |
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| Next to the Bridge is this museum. |
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| Comments |
| "I really didn't think I was going to
care about anything called the Voting Rights Museum but
I was proved wrong about 15 seconds after I thought it by
a wall to my left. On it were what appeared to be little
white post-its... Written by people who had been on the
Selma to Montgomery march. I copied the text of some into
my journal: 'I was there,' 'I was clubbed by a police officer
and I stayed on my feet'... This woman, loud, brash, no-nonsense
woman directed woman directed us around. She was an absolutely
staggering individual... Reverend Reeves [Who was at Bloody
Sunday] spoke to us for only about 15 minutes. I am not
religious in the least, but this speech sent chills through
my body, It was all very surreal... It was as if it had
never happened except for that feeling that I had been sucked
up into a tornado and then dropped back to the ground again,
but at this point I was getting used to it." - Kate
Fiorucci |
| "In history, there really is a huge difference
in knowing what happened and actually knowing what it was
like. Simply knowing about the Selma to Montgomery march
is one thing, actually walking across the Pettus Bridge
is quite another. I don't think I could have really understood
the Civil Rights Movement, without going on this trip. I
would have just known the facts, I wouldn't have known the
feeling." -Graham Wright |
| "The next day, we drove to Selma, Al,
to the Pettus Bridge, we walked across the bridge, and I
pictured thousands of marchers behind us. I could not even
imagine the violence that took place there almost 40 years
ago." -Student |
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2: Mrs. Bland, the director of the museum.
6: Rev. Reese, a veteran of Bloody Sunday, 1965
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