Preserving history: Bloody Sunday billy club finds new home at voting rights museum
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Elmore County NAACP President Bobby Mays holds a billy club that was used during Bloody Sunday in 1965. The Herald / Briana Wilson

When Elmore County NAACP President Bobby Mays first got the call about a billy club that was used by an Alabama trooper during Selma's Bloody Sunday in 1965, his first thought was that it should be engulfed in flames.

"After some thought, I felt it would be best to take it somewhere where it could be displayed as an artifact," Mays said. "I recognized that my thought was impulsive. It needs to be preserved rather than burned."

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This note accompanied the billy club that was given to Bobby Mays. The Herald /Briana Wilson

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