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The Edmund Winston Pettus Bridge was the scene of the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. The demonstrations that occurred here led to the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965. The bridge was erected in 1939 and named after U.S. Senator Edmund Winston Pettus.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama, United States. Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. senator, and state-level leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. According to Smithsonian, "The bridge was named for him, in part, to memorialize his history of restraining and imprisoning African-Americans in their quest for freedom after the Civil War". The bridge is a steel through arch bridge with a central span of 250 feet (76 m). Nine large concrete arches support the bridge and roadway on its east side.
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Another antebellum-type home. The third floor has been restored to a mid nineteenth century hospital.
This house of worship is a historical site of essentially where the Voter Registration Act began with such visionaries as Reverend Ralph Abernathy, statesman John Lewis, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr meeting to start the grassroots campaign, and where the latter spoke on the topic of redress, in defiance of the authorities. The church is in a bit of a rough neighborhood, so use common sense.
A Greek Revival mansion of outstanding quality built in 1856, if you're wanting to explore an antebellum era property.
Discover here the original capital of the Cotton State, from 1819-1826, beside the muddy Alabama River. Very rustic, like Alabama's very own ghost town.