Edmund Pettus Bridge

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bridge historic place steel arch bridge

The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a historic steel-arch bridge in Selma, Alabama, best known as the site of the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” attack on civil rights marchers, a pivotal moment in the American civil rights movement.

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	bridge → historic place → steel arch bridge →
addedToNationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces	2013 →
associatedWithEvent	Selma to Montgomery marches →
associatedWithLegislation	Voting Rights Act of 1965 →
associatedWithMovement	American civil rights movement →
associatedWithPerson	Amelia Boynton Robinson → Hosea Williams → John Lewis → Martin Luther King Jr. →
carries	U.S. Route 80 →
commemoratedBy	annual civil rights marches and reenactments →
completionDate	1940 →
constructionStartDate	1939 →
crosses	Alabama River →
crossesFeature	floodplain of the Alabama River →
debate	public calls to rename the bridge →
design	steel through arch →
heritageDesignation	U.S. National Historic Landmark → property listed on the National Register of Historic Places →
length	about 1,248 feet →
locatedIn	Alabama → Dallas County, Alabama → Selma, Alabama → United States →
mainSpanLength	about 250 feet →
maintainedBy	Alabama Department of Transportation →
material	steel →
namedAfter	Edmund Pettus → Edmund Winston Pettus →
namedAfterAffiliation	Confederate general → Ku Klux Klan leader →
namedAfterOccupation	U.S. senator →
nationalHistoricLandmarkDesignationDate	2013 →
numberOfLanes	4 →
openingDate	1940 →
owner	State of Alabama →
partOf	U.S. Civil Rights Trail →
roleInHistory	catalyst for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 →
significantEvent	Bloody Sunday →
significantEventDate	1965-03-07 →
significantEventDescription	attack on civil rights marchers by law enforcement and possemen →
symbolism	symbol of the struggle for voting rights and racial equality in the United States →
touristAttraction	yes →
visitedBy	Barack Obama → U.S. presidents →
visitedByEvent	50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in 2015 →
width	about 40 feet →

Referenced by (13)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alabama → Dallas County, Alabama →	containsHistoricSite
Selma → Selma, Alabama →	hasLandmark
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute → Selma Interpretive Center →	locatedNear
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute →	associatedWith
Selma Historic District →	contains
Selma →	hasHistoricSite
Turnaround Tuesday →	hasLocation
U.S. Civil Rights Trail →	hasPart
Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965) →	location
Selma to Montgomery marches →	notableLocation