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Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail sign President Barack Obama's speech marking the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches Memorial at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The marches had a powerful effect in Washington.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge was the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965, when police attacked Civil Rights Movement demonstrators with horses, billy clubs, and tear gas [3] as they were attempting to march to the state capital, Montgomery. [2] The marchers crossed the bridge again on March 21 and walked to the Capitol building.
In March 2005, a re-enactment of the march took place to commemorate its 40th anniversary. [5] This anniversary led to the creation of a pedestrian walk around Selma. [6] In 2015 the Marion to Selma Connecting Trail was designated to connect the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail with the site of Jimmie Lee Jackson's murder. [7]
Crowds watched solemnly as the body of Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge one final time, 55 years after the civil rights icon marched for peace and was met with brutality in Selma ...
March 20, 2024 at 5:10 AM. ... Maine, write about the recent visit of 10 South Berwick residents to Tuskegee to march together across the historic bridge in Selma. ...
In 1940, a bridge across the Alabama River in Selma was named after him. In 1965, it became a civil rights movement landmark when 525 to 600 civil rights marchers on their way from Selma to Montgomery tried to cross the bridge, but were turned back and attacked by Alabama state troopers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Held Thursday through Sunday, it's the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
President Obama speaks at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches Video of President Obama's speech. On March 7, 2015, President of the United States Barack Obama delivered a speech at Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches on the subject of race relations within the United States.