Rename Edmund Pettus Bridge for John Lewis? Some civil rights veterans say no

[TexasTowelie]

Lynda Lowery was just 14 when she was one of hundreds of civil rights marchers beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, an event forever known as Bloody Sunday. She got seven stitches over her right eye, and 28 on the back of her head.

The memories of the emergency room — the needle; a nurse telling her many of the injured were treated without anesthesia — have only come back to her recently.

“After all these years, the bridge, Bloody Sunday and so forth brings back bad memories,” Lowery, a Selma resident, said in a phone interview on Saturday.

Lowery wept Friday evening on learning of the death of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, whose skull was cracked on the bridge that day. But she opposes efforts to name the bridge after him.

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