Those of us who are still living, particularly the young, need to take up the challenge and go forward because there is still so much to be done,' Sanders said.įootage of the Bloody Sunday beatings helped galvanize support for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 'This is lifting the people who were on the battlefield for a long time, starting in the 1950s and continuing all of their lives. The former Georgia congressman was beaten during Bloody Sunday. Sanders said the COVID-19 pandemic did not allow the four to have large funerals with the exception of Lewis, who was honored with events in Georgia, Alabama and Washington D.C. There will then be a 'slow drive' across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and wreaths will be placed honoring the four, former state Sen. The breakfast will be held as a drive-in, and people will remain in their cars during the breakfast while speakers will address the crowd from a stage. WARNING - this audiobook contains some strong language and descriptions of violence & injuries.The four will be honored during the Martin & Coretta King Unity Breakfast on March 7 in Selma. Read by Michael Fenton Stevens ( Last Trains, MI9, Whisper Wings, The Science of the Discworld, Long Earth, Long War, David Jason: Autobiography, Spitting Image, KYTV) He is now a Senior Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. From 2007 to 2011 he was the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion in London. This book is not solely about a shocking event or a process of justice it is about the efforts of a group of people to arrive at truth and a country’s attempt - three decades on - at painful and perhaps incomplete reconciliation.ĭouglas Murray is a best-selling author and award-winning political journalist based in London. What he discovered was a devastating story of ordinary people thrown into the most terrible of situations, a story not only more straightforward than the British army would like to admit, but more complex than the IRA has always claimed. In 2002, when the Saville Inquiry transferred from Derry to London, author Douglas Murray began attending daily to hear at firsthand the testimony of the soldiers and members of the IRA who had been there that dreadful day. Bloody Sunday was the worst massacre of British citizens by British troops since Peterloo in 1819 - a potent distillation of the rage and anguish of a bitter conflict that spanned decades and claimed three and a half thousand lives.

Bloody Sunday by Douglas Murray