Civil+Rights

Edmund Pettus Bridge- The **Edmund Pettus Bridge**, named for Edmond Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general, and eventual U.S. Senator, is a bridge in Selma, Alabama. It is famous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators who were attempting to march to the state capital of Montogomery.