Rep. John Lewis’ Casket Crosses Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge


John Lewis’ casket was just taken from the historic Brown Chapel AME Church here in Selma and placed onto a horse-drawn carriage, which will now carry his body one last time across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where Lewis was infamously beaten in 1965. The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., is where the civil rights icon first helped lead a march for voting rights in 1965 –>John Lewis to be carried across Edmund Pettus Bridge for final time