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The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business (US 80 Bus.) across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. senator, and state-level leader ("Grand Dragon") of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.
Edmund Pettus Bridge, bridge crossing the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama, that was the site of what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” a landmark event in the history of the American civil rights movement. On that day, March 7, 1965, white law-enforcement officers violently dispersed protesters, the.
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Mar 6, 2015 · On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers,...
The Edmund Pettus Bridge Selma, Alabama. NPS Photo. The Edmund Pettus bridge became a symbol of the momentous changes taking place in Alabama, America, and the world. It was here that voting rights marchers were violently confronted by law enforcement personnel on March 7, 1965. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.
Location: Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama. Designation: National Historic Trail. Amenities. 1 listed. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks--and three events--that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement.
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Mar 7, 2015 · HISTORY. Who Was Edmund Pettus? The march to freedom started on a bridge that honors a man bent on preserving slavery and segregation. Errin Whack. March 7, 2015. The Edmund Pettus...
Nov 16, 2021 · The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama was named after a former Confederate general in 1940. But in 1965, the bridge became the site of a historic civil rights protest. Alabama Department of Archives and History A portrait of Edmund Pettus taken in the 1860s, when he served as a Brigadier General for the Confederacy.
