With John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved ... “Bloody Sunday,” when he received a nearly fatal beating on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. Later, during more than 30 years as the ...

ATLANTA — The push to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama after the late Rep. John Lewis is moving forward. Lewis was beaten on the bridge as he marched for voting rights in 1965 ...

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 ...

University of Alabama history professor John ... bridge for Lewis should be taken into account. 'The name of that bridge is bigger than Selma,' he said. On Sunday, Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus ...

John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... to honor and respect him rather than beat the crap out of him.” There has been a movement to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after ...

The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. was the site of the violent incident known to many as “Bloody Sunday,” and the late Rep. John Lewis was among many who took the brave stance that day.

The body of civil rights leader and Georgia Congressmember John Lewis ... horses crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with family members placing red roses on the spot where Lewis was almost beaten ...

Civil rights icon John Lewis' body is being carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday. It's the bridge that he crossed in the march to Montgomery on March 7, 1965 ...

July 26 (UPI) --The body of civil rights icon and U.S. House Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday. A horse-drawn caisson carried the casket across the bridge in Selma ...

The body of Congressman John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Ala., on Sunday. It was a poignant moment at a hallowed place as the country honors the life of the civil rights icon.

Image: The casket of John Lewis is carried over the Edmund Pettus Bridge On 7 March 1965, non-violent demonstrators calling for equal voting rights for black Americans marched across the bridge.