Sixty years ago, on March 7, Sheyann Webb-Christburg walked with 600 other activists in Selma, Alabama, to protest Black voter suppression. As they reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge, just six blocks into their 54-mile march to the state capital of Montgomery, Webb-Christburg’s heart began to beat faster. She saw police lined up at the bridge’s entrance, wearing tear gas masks and holding…
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