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The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama is a landmark of considerable importance to the civil rights movement in America. Built in 1940 and named after a Confederate General and Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. On March 7, 1965 civil rights advocates peacefully marched across the bridge to be met by state police who killed one and injured dozens of the marchers. The photographs went national making Bloody Sunday a turning point in the civil rights movement. On March 21, 1965, the march again took place and reached the captial in Montgomery four days later. Sortly after Bloody Sunday, the Civil Rights act was passed by congress and signed into law by President Johnson. This black and white photgraph on canvas, taken from the west bank of the Alabama River.
