Edmund Pettus Bridge: located in Selma, Ala. This bridge was built in 1940 and named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general and US Senator from Alabama. It attained national fame as the site of the conflict of “Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965, when police attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators attempting to march to the state capital of Montgomery and nearly killed future Congressman John Lewis.
