Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama
by Carol M Highsmith
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Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama
Artist
Carol M Highsmith
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Photograph - Prints, Posters & Canvas
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The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a bridge that carries U.S. Route 80 across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. Built in 1940, it is named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general and U.S. Senator from Alabama. The bridge is a steel through arch bridge with a central span of 250 feet (76 m). It is famous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965, when armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators attempting to march to the state capital of Montgomery.
The bridge was declared a National Historic Landmark on March 11, 2013.
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March 19th, 2014
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