By Kimberly Heatherington | OSV News

A little more than 60 years ago — March 7, 1965 — approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, intending to march a 54-mile route to Montgomery, the state capital.