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Edmund Pettus Bridge

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama, United States. Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. senator, and state-level leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. Edmund Pettus Bridge is situated 1¼ miles west of Elmwood Cemetery.

National Voting Rights Museum

Museum

Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the… National Voting Rights Museum is situated 1¼ miles west of Elmwood Cemetery.

Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Church

Photo: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0.

Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a church at 410 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Selma, Alabama, United States. This church was a starting point for the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and, as the meeting place and offices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the Selma Movement, played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is situated 1¼ miles west of Elmwood Cemetery.

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Selma

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Selma is a city in Alabama. Selma has the distinction of being a notable place in the pages of history, for its role in the Civil War and doubly-so for its role in the Civil Rights Movement.

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