An online community town hall hosted by Selma Matters will be held tomorrow from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on renaming Edmund Pettus Bridge.
The public is invited to participate. The forum will be moderated by Dr. Bernard Lafayette, who is the co-founder of the Selma Center for Nonviolence and LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Votes Matter.
In recent times calls have been made to rename the bridge, which is one of Selma’s most notable landmarks and was the site of the 1965 Bloody Sunday incident during the Civil Rights Movement.
The bridge was named after Confederate veteran and Ku Klux Klan member Edmund Pettus, who was also a senator. Supporters of the effort to rename the bridge have often called for it to be named after the recently passed civil rights activist John Lewis.
The event can be viewed here.
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