The body of the late US civil rights icon John Lewis has been carried over Selma's historic Edmund Pettus Bridge for a final time. On 7 March 1965, known as "Bloody Sunday", Lewis and other ...

including late Congressman John Lewis, gathered for a peaceful march for voting rights in Selma. But that peace was shattered on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Alabama State Troopers. “They came ...

on “Bloody Sunday,” John Lewis and dozens of others were beaten while crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge. After an aborted second attempt, thousands had started out from Selma on March 21.

To look at this photo is to see what will come next. Not just over the course of a month in 1965, but into the future that is now.

The son of Alabama sharecroppers, John Lewis became a major leader in ... the Freedom Rides, and the Selma-to-Montgomery march. As chair of SNCC he coordinated voter registration and community ...

John Lewis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer ... He was also a leader at the march in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, which led to the eventual passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Among them were Hosea Williams, John Lewis and local activist Amelia Boynton ... from workshops and panels to a multiday march from Selma to Montgomery. On Friday, U.S. Rep.