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Article: PETTUS BRIDGE STANDS AS SYMBOL FOR SELMA.(FRONT)
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- The Capital Times
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- June 8, 2001
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Byline: Anita Weier The Capital Times
SELMA, ALA. -- The highlights of this rundown city of 20,000 are landmarks of the civil rights movement - the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the National Voting Rights Museum.
It almost seems as if the town stopped in the 1960s. Even the indoor architecture of the restaurant where the visiting UW-Madison Freedom Ride class eats lunch is wood-paneled, long-tabled, crepe-paper-decorated '60s-style. The lights go out briefly as we stand in the buffet line.
It was 1965 when confrontations between police and demonstrators made Selma famous, when plans by civil rights organizations to march from Selma to Montgomery ...