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.

The Selma Police Department is investigating a crash involving a pedestrian at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge around 7 p.m. Wednesday.

A petition on Change.org has gained over 444,900 signatures as of 10:44 p.m. Saturday night to rename the bridge. “It’s far past time to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after Rep. John Lewis ...

Joined by Coretta Scott King and John Lewis, then of the Voter Education Project, a crowd estimated at 5,000 people marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 8, 1975, to ...

The bridge's namesake, Edmund Pettus, was a Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama.Lewis visited the bridge earlier this year to mark the 55th anniversary of the historical ...

Congressional Democrats have reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The legislation, named after the late ...

On Sunday, March 7, 1965, between 500 and 600 people, led by John Lewis and Rev. Hosea Williams, marched out of Selma on US 80 and began to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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… ...

The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a powerful symbol all over the world. People in Asia, particularly in China and India, have spoken to me in person about the bridge as a symbol of freedom. People in Egypt, ...

On the Edmund Pettus Bridge is where Lewis led hundreds of marchers demanding equal voting rights. "We were beaten, trampled by horses, and they used tear gas," he once said.

I thought I was going to die." The casket of Rep. John Lewis moves over the Edmund Pettus Bridge by horse drawn carriage during a memorial service for Lewis, July 26, 2020, in Selma, Ala.

“It’s far past time to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon that nearly gave his life on that bridge,” Michael Starr Hopkins, the founder of the John ...