A REMARKABLE BRIDGE
By Sofia
This photo of Edmund Pettus bridge was taken on the 7th/ 8th grade Deep South trip in May 2019. This bridge is in Selma, Alabama. The Edmund Pettus bridge is where Bloody Sunday took place, one March 7th, 1965. On Bloody Sunday, police officers attacked protesters and civil rights leaders, causing many people to be hospitalized.
This photo was originally not very colorful and a lot darker. I chose to edit this photo to make it more colorful. You might wonder why I decided to make this photo more colorful instead of darker and make it look sad because of the events that happened here. However, this bridge is where many sad events occured, but also one amazing and revolutionary event happened. To show this, I made this photo more colorful and happy to remind us that even though they failed to cross the bridge twice, they eventually succeeded. This is the bridge African American people marched across and clarified to the nation that they had their rights to vote.