When Your Children Shall Ask You -- Selma Civil Rights park, Selma AL
N 32° 24.188 W 087° 00.977
16S E 498468 N 3585121
A powerful memorial to those at Selma who fought an uphill struggle for voting rights at the Selma Civil Rights Park
Waymark Code: WMWG8T
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 09/01/2017
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A mass of several boulders set on a brick and earth plinth surrounded by a fence calls the visitor over. Engraved on the central boulder is a verse from the Bible as follows:
"When your children shall ask you in time to come saying "what mean these stones?" Then you shall tell them how you made it over."
Jopshua 4: 21-22"
The boulder is placed in the Selma Civil Rights Park, located at the spot where peaceful African American voting rights marchers were confronted with overwhelming force by armed AL state troopers, who beat the unarmed protesters until they retreated back over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. That confrontation became known as "Bloody Sunday", and it galvanized the nation to demand justice and rights for millions of disenfranchised black citizens.
Civil Right Type: Race (includes U.S. Civil Rights movement)
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