Ava DuVernay backs Selma bridge renaming petition
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peoplemagazine.co.zaAva DuVernay has thrown her support behind a new campaign to rename a famous bridge featured in her 2014 movie Selma after civil rights activist and politician John Lewis.
The U.S. Representative marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. back in 1965, when their peaceful protest to demand African-American voting rights was met by police officers, who brutally beat the demonstrators on what became known as Bloody Sunday.
Now the name of the bridge itself has come under scrutiny amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, seeking an end to racial injustice and inequality, as Senator Pettus was an officer in the Confederate Army and a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
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