Edmund Pettus Bridge



         


The Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a confederate brigadier general, and eventual US Senator, is a bridge in Selma, Alabama. It is infamous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday, where armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators.

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