Edmund Pettus Bridge
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The Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general, and eventual U.S. Senator, is a bridge in Selma, Alabama. It is infamous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators.
The bridge crosses the Alabama River.
[edit] See also
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- John Lewis (politician)
- Selma to Montgomery marches
- Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
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