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The late journalist and New Orleans resident Roy Reed, who passed away in 2017, is perhaps best known for his enterprising Civil Rights-era coverage in
The
New York Times, including a March 1965 attack of state troopers on unarmed marchers in Selma, Alabama at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Times story of the ensuing carnage, known as Bloody Sunday, Reed boldly wrote of white troopers who “tore through column of Negro demonstrators with tear gas, nightsticks and whips.” The New Orleans
Alabama Legislature passes effort to rename bridge after late Rep. John Lewis
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SELMA, Ala. - The effort to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge to honor the late Rep. John Lewis passed the Alabama Legislature.
HRJ 100, Naming A Portion of Alabama Highway 8 (U.S. Highway 80) From Selma to Montgomery The John R. Lewis Memorial 10 Highway sponsored by State Rep. Price Chestnut, was passed.
The site is where the late congressman led a peaceful protest across the bridge before being attacked on Sunday, March 7, 1965, a day that has become known as Bloody Sunday.
Michael Starr Hopkins, Founder of the John Lewis Bridge Project, released the following statement:
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