Marchers walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee on March 1, 2020. (Shauna Stuart for AL.com) ...

With the death of congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, pressure is mounting to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Lewis was one of the prominent activists who marched ...

Civil rights icon John Lewis' body is being carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday. It's the bridge that he crossed in the march to Montgomery on March 7, 1965, a day ...

A project to light the Edmund Pettus Bridge — an iconic structure for its role in the struggle for Civil Rights — could be completed by next summer in Selma, Alabama, organizers said this week.

Lynda Lowery was 14 when she and hundreds of civil rights marchers were beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, an event known as Bloody Sunday. She got seven stitches over her right ...

President Barack Obama will call for a new generation of Americans to take up the torch kindled by civil rights leaders 50 years ago in Selma, Alabama, when he visits the historic town Saturday ...

The casket of Rep. John Lewis moves over the Edmund Pettus Bridge by horse drawn carriage during a memorial service for Lewis, July 26, 2020, in Selma, Ala. John Bazemore/AP ...

SELMA, Ala. - The death of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis has sparked a national debate over the Edmund Pettus Bridge-- a site of history, but one that’s named for a Confederate general and ...

On Sunday, the funeral procession for the late Congressman will carry him once again over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. To stream 11Alive on your phone, you need the 11Alive app.

Crowds in Selma, Ala., marched Sunday across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the "Bloody Sunday" demonstration of March 7, 1965. Nearby, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., the Rev. Al ...

Even though beaten back on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, they came back and eventually completed the 54-mile trek to Montgomery, 25,000 people strong on March 25, 1965.

The historic Edmund Pettus Bridge on U.S. Highway 80 in Selma will be closed during filming of a movie, says the Alabama Department of Transportation.The bridge will not be open to traffic between ...