Yesterday we went to Selma
Alabama, famous for Bloody Sunday and the marches on the Edmund
Pettus Bridge. While we did see that stuff, we also explored the town as a
whole. The thing that stuck with me was the extreme poverty in Selma. That town
makes Baltimore look like a paradise. Also there is a sense of racial tension
there. The churches are only now starting to integrate and there are new
monuments to confederate war criminals that are regularly cared for and
visited. Its seem like the civil rights movement left this town behind which
means someone need to come back and give Selma the help it needs.
Isaiah Hug, The Park School
of Baltimore
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