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John Lewis' final crossing over Edmund Pettus Bridge

The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., is strewn with rose petals in preparation for civil rights icon John Lewis' final crossing Sunday, June 26, 2020, a far cry from his brutal reception on Bloody Sunday in 1965. The violent assault on civil rights marchers helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

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