Lewis’ casket traveled by horse-drawn carriage across the Edmund Pettus Bridge over ... Sunday in 1965, John was confronted by Alabama state troopers and their dogs. They beat him with billy ...

Edmund Pettus Bridge should be the John Lewis Bridge ... The first to take a beating was John Lewis; his knees buckled beneath him as a trooper fractured his skull with a baton.

John Robert Lewis ... Chapel AME Church on Sunday, Lewis’ body traveled on a horse-drawn caisson through several blocks of downtown Selma to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where Lewis’ flag-draped ...

John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... see the state troopers here to honor and respect him rather than beat the crap out of him." Lewis' body was then taken to the Alabama ...

By Allyson Waller The death of Representative John Lewis on Friday has renewed interest in a campaign to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... state troopers beat demonstrators who were ...

Following the death of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the calls to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge where he was brutally beaten while fighting for the right of Black Americans to vote ...

John Lewis on Friday has renewed calls to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... heavily armed state and local police who brutally beat them with clubs, fracturing Lewis’ skull.

Lynda Lowery was just 14 when she was one of hundreds of civil rights marchers beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge ... of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, whose skull was cracked on the bridge that day.

On Sunday morning beginning at 10 a.m., the body of John Lewis will be carried on a lone pilgrimage across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. From Selma, Lewis will go on to Montgomery, where there ...

SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - The death of Congressman and Civil Rights Icon John Lewis has sparked a renewed interest in the renaming of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. The push comes amid a national ...

John Robert Lewis ... Chapel AME Church on Sunday, Lewis’ body traveled on a horse-drawn caisson through several blocks of downtown Selma to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where Lewis’ flag-draped ...

The body of John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge one last time on Sunday in what organizers described as "The Final Crossing," part of a multiday celebration of the life of the civil rights ...