Crossing the Bridge

Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, left, and John Lewis of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led more than 500 people across Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, during the Selma to Montgomery march.

Civil rights marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama
Courtesy of the Birmingham News; photograph by James "Spider" Martin
Civil rights marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama