The casket of late U.S. Rep. John Lewis was carried over Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama on Sunday as remembrance ceremonies continued for the civil rights icon.
The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis has crossed Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama for the final time as remembrance ceremonies continue for the civil rights icon.
A processional with Lewis’s casket was carried Sunday across the bridge where he and other civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years ago on Bloody Sunday, a key event in the fight for voting rights for African Americans. Lewis will lie in repose at the Alabama capitol on Sunday afternoon.
A crowd began gathering near the bridge before the crossing as state troopers and police officers stood along the barricaded sidewalks nearby.
A series of events began Saturday in Lewis’s hometown of Troy, Ala., to pay tribute to the late Democratic congressman and his legacy. He will lie i