The Edmund Pettus Bridge

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white photograph of the Selma to Montgomery march progressing over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where marchers were later attacked in an event known as Bloody Sunday.

Catalog date

March 7, 1965; printed 1995

Recorded places

Selma, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Civil Rights; Photography

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