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Bridge
Edmund Pettus Bridge
1940 steel bridge over the Alabama River where voting-rights marchers were attacked on Bloody Sunday in March 1965. It is a national historic landmark.
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Selma
In the destination Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma.
In the photo: Facade of Selma City Hall, in the historic downtown.
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The city
What to expect from Selma.
City on the banks of the Alabama River linked to Bloody Sunday, the police attack on a voting-rights march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in March 1965. Weeks later the march continued to Montgomery. The bridge, the church where the marches began and the voting-rights museum are the main visits.
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The local experience
What to see in Selma
Church
Brown Chapel AME Church
African Methodist Episcopal church from 1908, from which the Selma marches began in 1965. It was the gathering point for the local voting-rights movement.
Museum
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute
Museum at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, on the east side of the river, about the struggle for voting rights, with photos, objects and testimony from participants in the 1965 marches.