trivia?

[Russ Spence]

Does anyone know what historic event happened on this bridge in My hometown of Selma Alabama

 

[Lou hoods&more]

Lets' see a bridge in Alabama.....does this involve a noose?

 

[crfguy168]

Ooh, ooh I know!! Pick me, pick me

 

[The Cleaner]

Does anyone know what historic event happened on this bridge in My hometown of Selma Alabama

Civil rights march into Montgomery ?

 

[Grant]

Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.

 

[Danny Bates]

after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the marchers, in plain sight of photographers and journalists, were brutally assaulted by heavily armed state troopers and deputies.

 

[Danny Bates]

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/buildings/cost1.jpg

When ABC television interrupted a Nazi war crimes documentary, Judgement in Nuremberg, to show footage of violence in Selma a powerful metaphor was presented to the nation. Within forty-eight hours, demonstrations in support of the marchers were held in eighty cities and thousands of religious and lay leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, flew to Selma. On March 9, Dr. King led a group again to the Pettus Bridge where they knelt, prayed, and, to the consternation of some, returned to Brown Chapel. That night a Northern minister, who was in Selma to march, was killed by white vigilantes.

 

[Russ Spence]

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/buildings/cost1.jpg

When ABC television interrupted a Nazi war crimes documentary, Judgement in Nuremberg, to show footage of violence in Selma a powerful metaphor was presented to the nation. Within forty-eight hours, demonstrations in support of the marchers were held in eighty cities and thousands of religious and lay leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, flew to Selma. On March 9, Dr. King led a group again to the Pettus Bridge where they knelt, prayed, and, to the consternation of some, returned to Brown Chapel. That night a Northern minister, who was in Selma to march, was killed by white vigilantes.

he was supposed to march the first day but he didnt show, he came after the National Guard was brought in.

 

[Pat Norman]

I was going to say that was the Tallahatchie bridge that Billy Joe Mcallister jumped off of but that's in my neck of the woods.:winknudge:

 

[mbryan]

That's the bridge where Andrew Jackson proposed to his sister.

 

[crfguy168]

That's the bridge where Andrew Jackson proposed to his sister.

LMAO!!!

 

[ccobb]

Is that where Forest Gump started running across the country

 

[bamawash]

I bet if you sprinkle baby powder and leave a candy bar you will see little foot prints . . . oh wait, thats every bridge in Alabama !