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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.
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,...
Attraction Info: Quick Stop. Online Resources: http://alabama.travel/places-to-go/edmund-winston-pettus-bridge. View Itinerary. Explore the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the brutal Bloody Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers during the first march for voting rights.
Jan 28, 2010 · Edmund Pettus Bridge. Selma to Montgomery March. On March 9, King led more than 2,000 marchers, Black and white, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge but found Highway 80 blocked again by...
Nov 16, 2021 · Updated November 17, 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.
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.
Mar 5, 2015 · The bridge has become one of the most hallowed places in America's civil rights history, but who was Edmund Pettus? "Pettus was the head of the most notorious white terrorist group in...
