President Obama and others walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala,. for the 50th anniversary of the landmark event of the civil rights movement last Saturday. (Jacquelyn Martin, The Associated Press)
Re: “Obama at Selma anniversary: ‘The march is not yet over,’” March 8 news story.
It is unfortunate that your article about Bloody Sunday in 1965 did not mention the symbolism of starting the Selma to Montgomery march by walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Pettus helped organize, and became a general in, Alabama’s 20th Regiment, which fought in the Civil War. He was a founder and Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan and as a United States senator from Alabama an implacable foe of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, which gave the freed slaves full civil rights.
Marshall Brodsky,Denver
This letter was published in the March 15 edition.
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