![]() ![]() Route 80 Business (formerly the mainline U.S. The bridge was declared a National Historic Landmark on February 27, 2013. The marchers crossed the bridge again on March 21 and walked to the Capitol building. ![]() The Edmund Pettus Bridge was the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965, when police attacked Civil Rights Movement demonstrators with horses, billy clubs, and tear gas as they were attempting to march to the state capital, Montgomery. Nine large concrete arches support the bridge and roadway on the east side. The bridge is a steel through arch bridge with a central span of 250 feet (76 m). senator, and state-level leader (" Grand Dragon") of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. ![]() Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. Route 80 Business (US 80 Bus.) across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. ![]()
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