• The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business (US 80 Bus.) across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama.
  • After Bloody Sunday the Edmund Pettus Bridge stood as a powerful symbol of the fight for African American civil rights.
  • You cannot visit Selma without visiting the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It looks exactly as it did in the 1960s, so it is a powerful reminder that the fight for civil rights...
  • Edmund Pettus was a bitter racist, undeserving of the honor bestowed upon him. ... It’s far past time to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after Rep.
  • Named in honor of local citizen and longtime U.S. Senator Edmund Winston Pettus (1821–1907), the bridge was completed in 1940.
  • They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back...
  • It was the site of one of the bloodiest days in the civil rights movement: The Edmund Pettus Bridge, which crosses the Alabama River in Selma and became...
  • This would be the last time John Lewis would visit the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 55 years after Bloody Sunday pic.twitter.com/BXqHyO0CQl.
  • The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a historic bridge which is a great symbol of momentous changes that occurred in the US, located in the city of Selma, the State of.
  • Edmund Pettus, the namesake for the bridge at the beginning of the route from Selma to Montgomery, was a Civil War General and two-term U.S...