LIVE July 26 at 11 a.m. Rep. John Lewis's casket crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Rep. John Lewis will be carried from Selma to Montgomery across Edmund Pettus Bridge on July 26, in a procession entitled “Good Trouble.” Alabama state officials will receive Lewis’s casket at the Capitol in Montgomery, where he will lie in state for the rest of the day.
March 7, 1965, became known as Bloody Sunday, when Lewis led 600 people to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Police beat peaceful protesters with clubs and tear gas. Lewis, his skull fractured, went to the hospital along with 77 others.
Bloody Sunday pricked the national psyche deeply. A second march across the bridge two days later was led by Martin Luther King Jr., and included hundreds of participants. Lewis revisited the bridge on anniversaries of Bloody Sunday, often accompanied by political leaders of both parties.
Lewis died on July 17 at the age of 80. The civil rights leader spent his lifetime preaching nonviolence while enduring beatings and jailings during seminal front-line confrontations of the 1960s. He spent more than three decades in Congress defending the crucial gains he had helped achieve for people of color. Read more: https://wapo.st/2Cn5Jgs. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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I remember watching Bloody Sunday on the Huntley Brinkley report with my Dad in 1965.
Horrifyingly.
This is so symbolic
what he gave.
