The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis has crossed Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama for the final time as remembrance ceremonies continue for the civil rights icon. A processional with Lewis's casket was carried Sunday across the bridge where he and other civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years ago on Bloody Sunday, a key event in the fight for voting rights for African Americans. A crowd began gathering near the bridge before the crossing as state troopers and police officers stood along the barricaded sidewalks nearby. Lewis led hundreds of marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 as they faced attacks by state troopers. (Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images)Frank Hill, 60, said he remembers, as an African American child, watching news footage of Lewis and other civil rights marchers being beaten by law enforcement officers.

Source: CBC News July 26, 2020 16:52 UTC