(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...

Rep. John Lewis was brutally beaten and sustained a fractured skull on Edmund Pettus Bridge by white officers as he marched for voting rights as a young man.

"(Congressman Lewis) introduced him to Maxine Waters and Joseph Kennedy." JoAnn Pittman grew up in Montgomery during the Bus Boycott. Her parents attended meetings and rode in carpools; as a ...

JoAnn and James Pittman drove from Atlanta to Selma — a 5-hour trip — to pay their respects to a man they knew both as a civil rights hero and a kind human being who wrote letters of encouragement to ...

The bridge had been closed since 9:10 a.m., officials report. Law enforcement reopen Lewis and Clark Bridge Sunday morning Skip to main content Skip to main content ...

Washington State Department of Transportation reported at 9:10 a.m. that the police activity had blocked both directions at the Lewis and Clark Bridge. A bucket truck is extended toward the top of the ...

In Selma, tributes to John Lewis and calls to protect ... the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King warmly took her hand when she felt shy ... beat the marchers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.