Bloody Sunday memorial to honour late civil rights giants

John Lewis, centre, talks with people gathered on the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge during the 19th annual re-enactment of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ Selma to Montgomery civil rights march across the bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7 2012 (Kevin Glackmeyer/AP)

The commemoration of a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights for African Americans will honour four giants of the civil rights movement who lost their lives in 2020, including US Representative John Lewis.

The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will mark the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday – March 7 1965 – when civil rights marchers were brutally beaten by law enforcement officers on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.