I Say Thank You | Peryonna Sylvester

What would you tell Olivia White, the courageous civil rights activist from Alabama, if you met her again? “What I would say to her is, ‘Thank you, because as a woman you changed my life. You helped me look at things in a different way and understand that life wasn’t so easy – but we persevered. So for that, I say, thank you.’”

Statue of a Black woman participating in the local bus boycott in 1955, at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, Alabama.
Replica of the truck used to kidnap Emmett Till and dispose of his body, at the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in Glendora, Mississippi.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where police beat voting rights marchers on “Bloody Sunday” in 1965.
Statue of a slave screaming in anguish at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

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