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 ...

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. "I was hit with a billy club ...

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 crosses Edmund Pettus Bridge one last time in special ceremony ... procession and remembered the day Alabama state troopers beat Lewis with billy clubs, fracturing his skull.

"It's far past time to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after Representative John Lewis ... tear gas into the crowd and beat marchers with night sticks. Lewis, who was 25 at the time, suffered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...