Edmund Pettus Bridge

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Bloody Sunday - African American Studies
March 6, 2022
Vice President Harris's visit to Selma for the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" is a reminder that the struggle for equal…
October 3, 2021
Auburn University professors and students launched a Facebook page to identify hundreds of people who were involved in the 1965…
December 17, 2020
In the final weeks before his Georgia Senate runoff, Jon Ossoff tributes the late Congressman John Lewis in a new…
July 22, 2020
Black America is still mourning the death of Rep. John Lewis -- but few people knew him as well as…
July 20, 2020
David A. Love says honoring the legacy of John Lewis must also include renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama…
July 19, 2020
Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) calls for the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., named after a KKK member, to be…
January 30, 2020
Jorge Anderson El, a homeless activist, is on a crusade to give congressman John Lewis his flowers now, rather than…
June 4, 2015
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama senators took a step toward renaming Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, a historic site in the…
March 1, 2015
For President Barack Obama, it's a week to invoke America's civil rights struggles from past to present.
January 20, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to visit Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of historic civil rights
January 18, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — “Steady, loving confrontation.” Those were the first words Lynda Blackmon Lowery says she heard from the
December 25, 2014
“It is good to be present when the ordinary is trans­formed… It is good to see the commonplace illumined and
November 25, 2014
I really wanted to write something poignant last night but all I could do was cuss at random intervals for
March 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The location is one of 13 new sites to receive federal recognition, including the home of Uncle…