Selma And The Cross

There is a sacred aspect to Selma, Alabama as a place where collective blood was shed for the sin of America–the original sin of slavery–in the same way Jesus shed blood for the sins of humankind. A throng of people joined in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s decision to take up the cross. This paper will also describe how Selma was, and remains, a modern-day Nazareth of ordinary folks living on the margins, but who yet made a difference that changed the world. 

Thus, there is a significance to Selma that is spiritual in nature in that the Edmund Pettus Bridge is itself a crucifix that continues to be crossed by thousands.