Casket of Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Crosses Selma Bridge as Remembrances Continue
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hollywoodreporter.comThe late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday asremembrancescontinue for the civil rights icon.
The bridge became a landmark in the fight for racial justice when Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten there 55 years ago on "Bloody Sunday," a key eventthat helped galvanize support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Lewis returned to Selma each March in commemoration. Sunday found him crossing alone — instead of arm-in-arm with civil rights and political leaders — after his coffin was loaded atop a horse-drawn wagon that retraced the route through Selma from Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where the 1965 march began.
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