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Calls grow to rename Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge after John Lewis. Some civil rights veterans say no

Brian Lyman, Montgomery AdvertiserComments Off on Calls grow to rename Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge after John Lewis. Some civil rights veterans say no

"They weren't marching to change a symbol. They were marching to change a system," Selma Mayor Darrio Melton said of John Lewis' Bloody Sunday protest.

       
Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser
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