The passing of civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis has renewed calls to rename a bridge in Selma, Alabama, currently honoring a Confederate general who was a Ku Klux Klan leader.
"Pettus was a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan," Clyburn said."Take his name off that bridge and replace it with a good man - John Lewis, the personification of the goodness of America - rather than honor someone who disrespected individual freedoms."
Aided by Father James Robinson, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., center, and John Lewis of the Voter Education Project, a crowd estimated by police at 5,000, march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma, Ala., on March 8, 1975.Lewis was one of several peaceful protesters who suffered serious injuries on the bridge in 1965 during a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
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