We move the car to the main street and take the symbolic walk over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. In 1965, the bridge was the scene of three significant demonstrations. The first march was brutally suppressed by the police before the protesters were able to cross the bridge, which forever gave the day the name “Bloody Sunday.” Photographs of an unconscious Amelia Boynton Robinson, an activist and one of the leaders of the civil rights movement, were published worldwide. Boynton Robinson was one of the initiators of the demonstration. She was 104 years old when she passed away in August 2015. During
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