Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer. still image Digital photographs Color 2000-2010. gmgpc 2010 April 6. eng The Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general, and eventual U.S. Senator. It is famous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators who were attempting to march to the state capital of Montgomery. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. George F. Landegger; Forms part of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in 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.07257 No known restrictions on publication.