It was striking to be in Georgia in October 2018, on the eve of possibly a historic election. Stacey Abrams already made history as the first black woman nominated for governor by a major political party. Now she might become the first black woman governor of a US state and the first Democrat elected Georgia governor in two decades. My Atlanta friends were hopeful but skeptical. An article in the LA Times today (Nov 2) called the race a dead heat.
It was in this context that I visited two iconic places in Alabama that are associated with the struggle for civil rights in the US--the Southern Poverty Law Center's Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery and the Edmund Pettus bridge, site of Bloody Sunday in 1965 in Selma.
