The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, is named after a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader. More than 460,000 signatures appeared as of Sunday on an online petition that calls for putting the name of late Rep. John Lewis on the Selma, Alabama, bridge where police beat civil rights marchers bloody in 1965. […]
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