What happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7 1965?

What happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7 1965? On , when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of the violence collectively shocked the nation and galvanized the fight against racial injustice. What happened … Continue reading What happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7 1965?