Attempts to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma aren’t new to Reese. Every few years, a push emerges to rename the historic bridge, the site of Bloody Sunday and the 1965 Selma to ...

The death of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis has sparked national debate over the Edmund Pettus Bridge -- a site of history, but one that's named for a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader.

Lynda Lowery was 14 when she and hundreds of civil rights marchers were beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, an event known as Bloody Sunday. She got seven stitches over her right ...

More than 100,000 people have signed a petition to rename the Edmund Pettus bridge after Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat and civil rights leader who participated in the 1965 march across the ...

Thousands gathered in Selma, Ala., in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the brid… ...

SELMA, Ala. — Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader.

The death of US Rep. John Lewis on Friday has renewed calls to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, after the civil rights legend. The push to rename the bridge comes amid a national ...

Edmund Pettus sends a message of violence, terror, oppression, White Supremacy, the destruction of the right to vote and death. The Bridge sends a message of non-violence, Freedom, equality ...

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) speaks to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment marking 55th anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday on March 1, 2020 in Selma, Alabama.

US Rep. John Lewis speaks to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment on March 1, 2020, in Selma, Alabama.