Edmund Pettus Bridge -- Selma AL - National Scenic Byways on Waymarking.com

After "Bloody Sunday," nonviolent marchers including Dr Martin Luther King marched from the Brown Chapel AME Church, through downtown Selma, over the Edmund Pettus Bridge (named for a CSA General and KKK Grand Dragon), and all the way to Montgomery.

Martin Luther King was intimately involved in and a major participant in the Selma to Montgomery March, conceived of by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and local pastors to protest Jim Crow-era suppression of their civil rights. The marchers were brutally attacked on "Bloody Sunday" after crossing the Edmind Pettus Bridge, a seminal event of the Civil Rights era that led directly to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

From America's Scenis Byways: (visit link)

"Selma to Montgomery March Byway
54 miles - Take one hour to drive or one day to experience the byway.

Journey through history along the trail that marks one of the major historic events in 20th-century American history, the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Wind through the streets of Selma; pass through countryside where marchers spent the night on their way to Montgomery."

Program: America's Byways Website: [Web Link] Official Name: Selma to Montgomery March Byway

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