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Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, AL

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Edmund Pettus Bridge

See the 1940 steel arch bridge in Selma where police attacked voting rights marchers on Bloody Sunday in March 1965.

US-80 Business over the Alabama River · Selma, AL

About Edmund Pettus Bridge

The Edmund Pettus Bridge, built in 1940 and now a National Historic Landmark, carries US Route 80 Business over the Alabama River in Selma. On March 7, 1965, law enforcement attacked voting rights marchers here in what became known as Bloody Sunday. Because of the bridge's design, marchers could not see the officers on the east side until they reached the top. A later march reached Montgomery on March 25, and the Voting Rights Act was signed less than five months after.

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