USA Sherpa
Jul 2008
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The famous Edmund Pettus Bridge was named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate Brigadier general and an eventual U.S. Senator. It is infamous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators.
It is the landmark of civil rights movement as it has played an important chapter in the long struggle for the rights of the Americans against racism. People from all walks of life fought for the right to housing, education, and employment regardless of color.
equality, rights, racism, americans
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