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The Edmund Pettus Bridge was the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965, when police attacked Civil Rights Movement demonstrators with horses, billy clubs, and tear gas [3] as they were attempting to march to the state capital, Montgomery. [2] The marchers crossed the bridge again on March 21 and walked to the Capitol building.
The march was led by John Lewis of SNCC and the Reverend Hosea Williams of SCLC, followed by Bob Mants of SNCC and Albert Turner of SCLC. The protest went according to plan until the marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they encountered a wall of state troopers and county posse waiting for them on the other side.
The televised brutality on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago garnered national attention and was a turning point in the civil rights movement. The landmark Voting Rights Act was signed into ...
The legislation is named for John Lewis, the late Georgia congressman who was at the lead of the Bloody Sunday march. “It is clear that the values that guided John Lewis and those foot soldiers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge are under attack every day.
President Obama speaks at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches Video of President Obama's speech. On March 7, 2015, President of the United States Barack Obama delivered a speech at Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches on the subject of race relations within the United States.
The power of the day was not in the walk or on the Edmund Pettus Bridge or even hearing Kamala Harris speak. ... write about the recent visit of 10 South Berwick residents to Tuskegee to march ...
The annual event which has been dubbed “The Annual Pilgrimage to Selma,” is held the second weekend of every March, consisting of a festival of music, art and historical remembrance leading up to the “March to Restore Voting Rights” across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
The casket carrying late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis traveled across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday — 55 years after he helped lead hundreds of demonstrators across the Selma, Ala ...