Selma Landmark Bridge Is Named For Reputed KKK Leader And Former US Senate Democrat...

The Democrats created the KKK and hijacked the civil rights movement. - weasel zippers Via KC Star: http://ift.tt/1wZBeOG When the nation's first black president steps onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge to honor the marchers beaten there 50 years ago, he'll be standing on a structure that's at once synonymous with the civil rights struggle and a tribute to a reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. The latter fact had all but faded from local memory until recently, when a Selma student group launched an online petition to rename the landmark bridge. During his 50th anniversary address Saturday, President Barack Obama will be flanked on one side by a new historic marker commemorating "Bloody Sunday," when white police beat demonstrators marching for black voting rights on March 7, 1965. The sign, erected earlier this year by the state tourism department, notes Obama's 2007 appearance there just before his election and the accolades for "Selma," the recent film about the march. It offers no details about Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate general and U.S. senator who lived in Selma after the Civil War. The Encyclopedia of Alabama, an online database sponsored by the University of Alabama, Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Education, says Pettus held the title of grand dragon of the Alabama Klan in 1877 - an assertion that's questioned by some historians. Read more: http://ift.tt/1wZBeOG



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