The NAACP Springfield and the League of Women Voters of Southwest Missouri organized a "teach-in" to promote social justice ...

With the death of congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, pressure is mounting to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Lewis was one of the prominent activists who marched ...

Lynda Lowery was 14 when she and hundreds of civil rights marchers were beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, an event known as Bloody Sunday. She got seven stitches over her right ...

Attempts to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma aren’t new to Reese. Every few years, a push emerges to rename the historic bridge, the site of Bloody Sunday and the 1965 Selma to ...

On "Bloody Sunday" in 1965, Lewis was beaten by Alabama state troopers. On Sunday, the civil rights giant and congressman, who died July 17, was carried across the bridge one last time amid a ...

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) speaks to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment marking 55th anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday on March 1, 2020 in Selma, Alabama.(Photo by Joe ...

This is an opinion column. Their hearts are in the right place. Almost 6,000 names are on a petition encouraging the Alabama Legislature to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for the man ...

The death of US Rep. John Lewis on Friday has renewed calls to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, after the civil rights legend. The push to rename the bridge comes amid a national ...

Thousands gathered in Selma, Ala., in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the brid… ...

The death of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis has sparked national debate over the Edmund Pettus Bridge -- a site of history, but one that's named for a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader.

Of the occasion, it was written, “And so today the name of Edmund Winston Pettus rises again with this great bridge to serve Selma, Dallas County Alabama and one of the nation’s great highways.” ...

US Rep. John Lewis speaks to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment on March 1, 2020, in Selma, Alabama. Joe Raedle/Getty Images CNN — ...