Edmund Pettus Bridge

"The Edmund Pettus Bridge was the site of two horrific events which stand in infamy in American History and in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. In February of 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot in the stomach during a confrontation of armed state troopers and Selma locals against some 400 unarmed Black protestors who were protesting a lack of voting rights for Blacks in Alabama. When Dr. Marting Luther King Jr. heard about the confrontation, he planned and lead a march a month later from Selma to the Alabama Capitol building in Montgomery, which crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. While the peaceful marchers were crossing the bridge, they were attacked by police and Selma locals alike in an event that became known as Bloody Sunday. Televised accounts of this attack were presented both nationally and internationally and gave rise to support for the Selma Voting Rights Movement."

"Civil Rights site, about 1h west of Montgomery."