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Bookmark or Share- Edmund Pettus Bridge - US Civil Rights TrailExplore the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the brutal Bloody Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers during the first march for voting rights.
- How Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ Became a Turning Point in the ...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,...
- Who Was Edmund Pettus? | SmithsonianNaming the bridge after Pettus was more than just memorializing a man considered a hero by the Confederacy. Built over the Alabama River, a key route for the state’s plantation and cotton economy...
- Edmund Pettus Bridge - WikipediaThe 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]
- Edmund Pettus Bridge | Bloody Sunday, Selma, John Lewis ...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.
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