Civil rights hero John Lewis to be remembered at site of Bloody Sunday
John Lewis will cross Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time on Sunday.
John Lewis will cross Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time on Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights hero.
His coffin will be carried in a procession across the Selma bridge where he and other civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years ago on “Bloody Sunday”, a key event in the fight for voting rights for African Americans.
