Word: pettus
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...bridge to voting rights was crossed Sunday by the Democrats' top two vote seekers. Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama marched over the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., site of "Bloody Sunday" in 1965, an historic moment in the civil rights battle...
...Taylor Branch: Well, of course, some of that is imposed by the history. I mean, there's the fact that the first Marine combat units land within hours of the first march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge [in Selma. Ala.] You've got the march in Selma and the landing of the troops in Danang, both with garlands around their necks, to me it's very poignant about an era of two different choices about how you foster democracy but starting off with such hope and promise. I didn't realize when I started the book, how closely...
...rights movement's most volatile battleground, will observe the third Monday in January as a dual holiday honoring the birthdays of King and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In Selma, the city council voted over the protest of Mayor Joe Smitherman to approve a candlelight walk to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a bloody 1965 clash between black marchers and police. In Birmingham, near the Sixteeth Avenue Baptist Church, where a bomb killed four little girls in 1963, a 7-ft.-tall bronze likeness of King was scheduled to be unveiled Monday...