Paul McCartney calls for Pettus Bridge to be renamed after late civil rights activist John Lewis
Reading now: 646
nme.comPaul McCartney has called for the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to be renamed in honour of the late civil rights activist and US Congressman John Lewis.Lewis died at the age of 80 on Friday (July 17) from pancreatic cancer.
He was the last survivor of the ‘Big Six’ civil rights activists, a group led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.In March 1965 the bridge was the site of a major flashpoint in the civil rights movement.
During marches from Selma to Montgomery to protest the lack of voting rights for African Americans, peaceful protesters including Lewis and King were attacked by armed police while crossing the bridge in an incident that later became known as Bloody Sunday.The bridge is currently named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a.
Read more on nme.com
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.
