It became an iconic site of in the battle for equality, but the Edmund Pettus Bridge is named after a former Confederate general and KKK leader.

Leaders of those efforts stressed that any decision to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for a Confederate general, need to be left to the people of Selma.

An online petition to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma after U.S. Rep. John Lewis has picked up steam in the past two weeks.

On "Bloody Sunday" in 1965, Lewis was beaten by Alabama state troopers. On Sunday, the civil rights giant and congressman, who died July 17, was carried across the bridge one last time amid a ...

David A. Love says honoring the legacy of John Lewis must also include renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama the John Lewis Bridge.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a symbol of freedom all over the world. It is also a symbol of voting rights and democracy. However, the very name stands for the exact opposite. Symbols are powerful ...

Edmund Pettus Bridge name controversy More than 500,000 people have a signed a petition to change the name of the bridge to John Lewis. Lewis led hundreds of marches across the bridge as he fought ...

The death of US Rep. John Lewis on Friday has renewed calls to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, after the civil rights legend.

On March 7, 1965, Lewis led 600 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in a peaceful demonstration demanding the right to vote for Black people.

Thousands gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to celebrate and memorialize Civil Rights leaders who marched in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.

Who Was Edmund Pettus? The march to freedom started on a bridge that honors a man bent on preserving slavery and segregation ...