A Change.org petition to rename the bridge garnered over 460,000 signatures as of Sunday. John Lewis took a serious beating and shed blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Edmund Pettus was a Klansman.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge has become ... men who fought to preserve slavery. Men like Pettus. It’s an unjust law. When John Lewis crossed that bridge in Selma, he did so to fight unjust laws.

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 ...