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Article: Crossing Edmund Pettus Bridge.(NATIONAL REPORT)(Brief article)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- March 19, 2007
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Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) join Rep. John Lewis, former president Bill Clinton and other leaders for a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, where civil rights protesters were beaten in 1965 during the historic march to Montgomery. This recent gathering commemorated the events that occurred nearly 42 years ago, known as Bloody Sunday, when some 600 protesters of voting discrimination attempted to peacefully walk from Selma to Montgomery, but were halted when Alabama state troopers ...
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Article: SEN. SHELBY ANNOUNCES OVER $15,000 FOR PETTUS ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
August 28, 2006 ;
413 words
... ... Park Service will use the funds to purchase and install two Travelers' Information Stations, to be placed at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to mark the beginning of the Selma to Montgomery March Byway, and the second will be located near the ...
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