Bloody Sunday memorial honours late civil rights giants

Civil rights figures lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the recreation of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in 1990 (AP)

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

The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee marks 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.