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While a national audience watching speakers standing in front of a pulpit set up at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, what I saw was thousands of marchers coming over the Edmund Pettus Bridge and ...

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from the courage and humility of leaders like the late John Lewis ...

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Members of Congress joined with Bloody Sunday marchers to lead a march of several thousand people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge ... a white person on the street to avoid making eye contact.

At the apex of the span over the Alabama River, they saw what awaited them: a line of state troopers, deputies and men on horseback. After they approached, law enforcement gave a warning to disperse ...

on March 8 during an afternoon panel discussion at the St. James Hotel, in the shadow of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. “But really, democracy is about having government that is accountable to us.