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Marchers who want to walk down Selma start to cross the bridge. The marchers are stopped by a crowd of armed troopers on the other side of the bridge. When they start using violence the whole nation sees it on television.
The Bridge was named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general and U.S. Senator from Alabama. It was the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965. The bridge was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2013.
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"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
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