Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama [graphic].
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer.
still image
Digital photographs Color 2000-2010. gmgpc
2006 April 11.
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The Pettus Bridge was the site of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where state and local lawmen attacked civil rights demonstrators who were attempting to march from Selma to the state capital Montgomery. Named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general and U.S. Senator, the bridge carries U.S. Route 80 over the Alabama River and is part of the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail.
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Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Carol M. Highsmith;
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Edmund Pettus Bridge Bridges America
United States Alabama Selma.
Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.04116
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