Sign This Petition and Let’s Make History Together
The committee proposes to change the name of the bridge to:
JOHN LEWIS FOOT SOLDIERS’ BRIDGE
Renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge as THE JOHN LEWIS FOOT SOLDIERS BRIDGE would be a symbol of the important healing that is needed to safeguard our freedom and to atone for the pain that has been inflicted. Congressman Lewis was a humble man who would want nothing more than for the community to come together in unity to honor all those who were part of the struggle. The failure to honor him and the Foot Soldiers with the renaming of the bridge would be a disservice to the legacy of Congressman Lewis and the legacy of the brave young Foot Soldiers who defiantly marched across the bridge on that Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965 for a non-violent new beginning.
We must all – and we mean ALL – talk truth and reconciliation to put an end to the pain and hurt that is a result of the residual silent suffering that we are still experiencing today. What we really need and want to do is love … everybody! Let’s Do It!!!!
Sign This Petition and Let’s Make History Together
This petition is now closed.
End date: Oct 26, 2020
Signatures collected: 1
Signature goal: 10000
Signature goal: 10000
Proposal for the JOHN LEWIS FOOT SOLDIERS’ BRIDGE:
BRIDGE NAME CHANGE
The committee proposes to change the name of the bridge to:
JOHN LEWIS FOOT SOLDIERS’ BRIDGE
This name acknowledges all participants in the Civil Rights
Movement. “Congress decided to bestow the award to the Foot
Soldiers because their contribution to our country was so great
that they deserved the highest honor in our possession, the
Congressional Gold Medal.” House Speaker Paul Ryan February
24, 2016.
PAINTING BRIDGE
The committee will raise the funds to hire painting contractors.
Painting contractors will submit bids, with conditions prerequisite of
hiring Selma Citizens to provide all labor and to comply with equal
opportunity laws.
NECKLACE OF WHITE LIGHTS
The committee will raise the money to attach a necklace of white
lights, solar powered, spanning both sides of the bridge, stopping at
the location of the beating on Bloody Sunday.
White lights that symbolize a new day, a new beginning and a new
commitment to truth and reconciliation and healing.
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FREEDOM FLAME TORCH
The committee will raise the funds to erect a gas torch on both sides
of highway 80 at the end of the necklace of white lights, to be lighted
each year on March 7th.
The torches are to remain lit during the duration of the one week
march from Selma to Montgomery, honoring all the civil rights
workers killed during the Selma Civil Rights Movement—Jimmy Lee
Jackson, Viola Liuzzo, Rev. James Reeb, Rev. Jonathan Daniels, et
al., and all the Foot Soldiers who have since passed.
FUND RAISING
Bonergies Global Charitable Fund, a Non-Profit will coordinate fund
raising efforts to pay for the painting and lighting.
THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE— A UNITY OF ONE, will be
composed of R.B Hudson High graduates and all Citizens of Selma.
The committee will start a petition on the website for this proposal.
Attorney Charles A. Bonner agrees to pay for the website.
Please review this proposal. We welcome your thoughts and
suggestions. If this proposal meets with your approval, please add
your name, and join the committee.
1. Attorney Charles A. Bonner
2. Carolyn Doyle Tharp-King
3. Viola Johnson Douglas
4. Rev. Evelyn Manns
5. Terry Shaw
6. Charles Mauldin
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7. Amos Snell
8. James A. Reynolds
BRIDGE NAME CHANGE
.The committee proposes to change the name of the bridge to: JOHN LEWIS FOOT SOLDIERS’ BRIDGE This name acknowledges all participants in the Civil Rights Movement. “Congress decided to bestow the award to the Foot Soldiers because their contribution to our country was so great that they deserved the highest honor in our possession, the Congressional Gold Medal.” House Speaker Paul Ryan February
PAINTING BRIDGE
The committee will raise the funds to hire painting contractors. Painting contractors will submit bids, with conditions prerequisite of
hiring Selma Citizens to provide all labor and to comply with equal opportunity laws
NECKLACE OF WHITE LIGHTS
The committee will raise the money to attach a necklace of white lights, solar powered,
spanning both sides of the bridge, stopping at
the location of the beating on Bloody Sunday.
White lights that symbolize a new day, a new beginning and a new commitment to truth and reconciliation and healing
FREEDOM FLAME TORCHES
The committee will raise the funds to erect a gas torch on both sides of highway 80 at the end of the necklace of white lights, to be lighted
each year on March 7th
The torches are to remain lit during the duration of the one week march from Selma to Montgomery, honoring all the civil rights
workers killed during the Selma Civil Rights Movement—Jimmy Lee Jackson, Viola Liuzzo, Rev. James Reeb, Rev. Jonathan Daniels and all the Foot Soldiers who have since passed.
FUND RAISING
Bonergies Global Charitable Fund, a Non-Profit will coordinate fund raising efforts to pay for the painting and lighting.
Our Team For Change
Charles A. Bonner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
415-601-0268
charles@ bonnerlaw.com
Author: Tip of The Arrow, The Selma Student Nonviolent Movement, A Study in Leadership.
Rev. Evelyn Manns
Pastor Emerita
347-444-0210
revemanns@ yahoo.com
Minister
Viola Johnson Douglas PHD
334.327.9580
Vdouglas2018@
hotmail.com
PHD, Christian Counseling Doctorate , LPN,
Terry Shaw
313.460.1553
terryshaw9939@gmail.com
Chief Steward Negotiator Auto Workers Union
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Honoring the Legacy of John Lewis:
The John Lewis Foot Soldiers’ Bridge
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We – the R. B. Hudson High School graduates of the Class of 1964, the Foot Soldiers, the Tip of The Arrow, the first to step up, first to go to jail, first to be beaten, first to embrace nonviolence, first on the bridge making “Good Trouble” as Congressman John Lewis called it – write today to reach out to ALL of our fellow hometown people. It is time that we come together to talk to one another in the spirit of truth, love, and reconciliation.
The truth is that Edmund Pettus “fought for the Confederacy and was a White supremacist and a Ku Klux Klan leader who was praised for his work after the Civil War to fight the emergence of Black political power.” Many people, Black and White, died during the war, and Black people – men, women, children and the unborn in their mother’s womb – were lynched by the KKK under Pettus’s reign as a KKK grand dragon.
In contrast, who is JOHN LEWIS? He was a non-violent advocate for freedom for all people since his young days as a minister; he maintained his dedication to Selma and non-violence during his 33 years of service in the United States Congress. Every year he spearheaded a delegation to Selma in commemoration of our slaughter on that bridge for a non-violent new beginning.
People often name their children or grandchildren after those they want to remember, those who are remembered for advancing the universal spirit of peace and love. As such, Jews in Brooklyn would not want a bridge in their community known as “The Adolf Hitler Bridge.” No reasonable human being – regardless of religion, race, or nationality – would want to commemorate a man responsible for the state-sponsored killing of seven million Jews and millions of others.
Renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge as THE JOHN LEWIS FOOT SOLDIERS BRIDGE would be a symbol of the important healing that is needed to safeguard our freedom and to atone for the pain that has been inflicted. Congressman Lewis was a humble man who would want nothing more than for the community to come together in unity to honor all those who were part of the struggle. The failure to honor him and the Foot Soldiers with the renaming of the bridge would be a disservice to the legacy of Congressman Lewis and the legacy of the brave young Foot Soldiers who defiantly marched across the bridge on that Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965 for a non-violent new beginning.
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Sign This Petition and Let’s Make History Together
This petition is now closed.
End date: Oct 26, 2020
Signatures collected: 1
Signature goal: 10000
Signature goal: 10000