Bloody Sunday | Rep. John Lewis remembers the fateful day in Selma

It was 50 years ago when a young John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Lewis talks with AJC about that historic day and how it changed the Civil Rights movement. (Video by Ryon Horne/AJC)
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[@ralph7545]

Time to change the name of the bridge to John Lewis, an honorable leader.

[@annerafterymissionaryfranc9960]

Some brave people had to brave the grave injustice. John Lewis, rest in peace!

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Sunday Bell

[@kevnwarriner8819]

@@NazriB 👈 Oh look Everyone there's another Racist hiding behind a misspelled Name, why don't you just take the "R" out of it and spell it right? But if you actually knew anything about History and Not the White Supremacist version of History you would know about the Injustice that the Black Community had to suffer for Generations in America, even the Chinese suffered Injustice at the hands of the Radical Right Extremists like Adolf Trump, who was calling Covid a Racist name that linked Covid to the Asian Americans and yet you people literally bow to people like Trump and the Clown Car of Hate in the US and you actually live in Singapore, WTAF do you know about Slavery, Segregation and the Fight for Racial and Social Justice in the US? Nothing! That's what...

[@deloreswillis9224]

John ,Hosea & Others I SALUTE YOU ALL!!!!!!! God bless each of you🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@deloreswillis9224]

Amen 🙏🏿

[@melissavanhouten-ramos7256]

I’m 52 years old and never knew about this event. It was not taught in school. Not even in college. Thank you for sharing. Very courageous man Senator Lewis and the group of non-violent protestors standing up for inequality and equal rights, as it should be and then to be brutally attacked is very heartbreaking to say the least. 😞

[@dandross]

Stop lying

[@melissavanhouten-ramos7256]

@@dandross i was NEVER told about it nor taught about it in school. I have no need to lie just like you have no right to call me one!!!

[@thetrib-1eofjudah758]

Yte people are Devils.🎯

[@kevnwarriner8819]

@@dandross 👈 Oh look Everyone it's another Brave Klans Man hiding behind his Mobile Device..

[@davenorth8922]

I saw it on CBS Evening News when I was 11years old in my home state of NY. Afterwards I had a long talk about racism with my father who was born on the NC/VA border.. It changed me.

[@nelsonharpernolanlong7406]

I remember seeing the footage of this on the news when I was 10 in 1965. My father was sitting behind me on the sofa and I was on the floor. I asked him "what country is this in?" I got no response so I turned and looked at him and saw him crying as he told me it was in my own country.

[@PanchoVilla-fe8pt]

RIP Sir. No one is perfect, but it looks to me you made strives for others.

[@successschhoolofmotoring]

You were a true hero to the Civil Rights movement. R.I.P John Lewis.

[@deloreswillis9224]

Yesss JOHN & HOSEA RIP MY BROTHERS

[@vekinnamcclinton6254]

To God be the glory!!! We shall rise up!!!! The pain is ending!!! In Jesus Name!! The Great I Am ! Amen

[@StephenLuke]

RIP John Lewis (1940-2020).

[@lakishadent5765]

Rest in peace, your work was not in vain and we will prove it!

[@korbendallas7181]

I grew up thinking about some of the others we would see in the pictures. Like walking with MLK and marching at the front of the Selma march...who are those people? and then you say OH that Congressman is the same man? Wow, really was there on the frontlines for America. Living out his mission and really invoking change! What a life, RIPower! John Lewis!

[@traveldoc1234]

RIP Congressman John Lewis. 😢

[@bgc5887]

Rest in peace John Lewis. You went up against Satan and lived to talk about it. God was with you carrying you all the way. Although there was a chance to be maimed or even killed you remained steadfast. You are a true hero❤

[@namasteways]

So very wrong on so many levels what happened this day! I was a young child did not know this happened until taught in college. RIP Senator. We need more human beings in this world like you for sure! 🙏🏻💞

[@MissChloesWorld]

Rest in Paradise to a true American pioneer, Brother John Lewis!

[@MissChloesWorld]

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[@dougyoung3213]

Social media has a lot of people feeling very brave and I would love to see the disrespectful comments about this great man have that same energy in real life but I know that isn't going to happen rest well

[@MissChloesWorld]

Doug Young right man, these cowards hide behind fake names and just talk junk on here all day.. the internet is disgusting.

[@gjmayville7424]

R.I.P. Mr. Lewis

[@partof2559]

Peacefully marching and then the police violently arrest them all.

[@dmitryabrosimov6408]

Part Of now it’s the opposite, rioters engage in violence and police suffers

[@jadagreen]

@@dmitryabrosimov6408 because when they March peacefully , the cops don't listen .

[@dmitryabrosimov6408]

@@jadagreen it's not the police that have to listen, it's the higher ups, you don't have to loot, riot or murder, you have to VOTE establishment out, both D and R

[@leshaannir4406]

They wren't trying to arrest them, they were trying to kill them. That's what psychc US does

[@ubself]

Rest in Love, most respect

[@terandagoat6023]

I’m 4 months late but RIP. I’m glad that you and all the other civil rights activist made out so a black young man like me can live without a lot of worry🙏🏾😔

[@randiekay4994]

To see the actual footage...wow.

[@archiesnowden-diverseindep9418]

This was left out of our history lessons in grade school, as was many political events that has effected the existence of black people in America. Many learned in college or through great produced stories like this.

[@seansharpe8539]

Rip. Man we need way more people like him in congress, instead of the buffoons we have now.

[@GorillaPG22]

Thankyou so much Congressman Lewis for your immeasurable contributions to a better society

[@taylorshanks5910]

This really helped on my homework thx👍

[@donmiliki7798]

Rest in peace bruh

[@verdellellis4043]

This is so horrible so most Unforgettable in my heart and intge history books of mankind. So greatly appreciated and missed, but Never forgotten.

[@justinpare519]

Too bad this doesn't happen to people who deserve it.

[@martinacombaj1791]

God bless them! And god bless dear Joan Baez!

[@xyzsame4081]

Statue for a KKK grand wizard, rich slave trader, Confederate officier. Erected in *_1970_* in Nashville TN - 2 years after Dr. King was shot. 18 minutes into the speech (see link in other comment). Jeffery Robinson: "So I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and what greets me as a citizen of Tennessee when I go to my state capitol in Nashville where my grandparents lived: This is what I see. *_Nathan Bedford Forest,_* and you can see Confederate States Army lieutenant general and his birth date and his death date. There is nothing else on this monument except the fact that he was a Confederate States general. Well, he made a _fortune in Memphis as a slave trader,_ and he was the _original grand wizard of the KKK._ He led a _Confederate massacre_ of black soldiers and white soldiers, American soldiers during the Civil War. This monument wasn't put up in 1865 or 1866 with people saying, he's such a hero, we have to recognize him; this monument was built in 1970, two years after Martin Luther King was shot in the neck just down the road from Nashville, Tennessee."

[@StephenLuke]

KKK are Hell to me.

[@Mantaracer]

Good man start GOOD TROUBLE👍🗽

[@LunaMoonfae]

Wow absolutely heartbreaking. The police still haven't learnt lessons from the past

[@sadiebruni9504]

Merci Martin Luther king! Pour cette belle leçon

[@erastuseffah8388]

They were defenseless but they beat and killed them 😢

[@xyzsame4081]

26 minutes into the speech (see other comment for link): Edmund Pettus was, the grand [? dragon ? wizard - it was off mic] of the Alabama KKK. And that bridge was dedicated not in 1865, or 1870 *_but in 1940. _* [If i go after the footage, they haven't changed the effing name of the bridge in 2020 !]

[@ralph7545]

Time to change the name of the bridge from Edmund Pettus to John Lewis, an honorable leader.

[@CocoChanelle-1]

Well, I never read this in any of my history books growing up. So many things are Not in school history books.

[@sabe909]

Why this history is never shown….

[@nabanitabanerjee9385]

Its 2020 and nothing has changed .

[@TheLaughingComedian]

Why the 8 dislikes

[@MikeIzzo-lp7kn]

Man ya was causing trouble even in the 60s lol

[@NasirUddin-nk7tc]

Hi🇺🇸👫

[@peytonwalcott6755]

2:38-2:44

[@jessicajohnson7738]

Sad. Sad they can't see everyone as equal to vote and have so much anger built up for the opposite race.

[@MarcelBumchod]

Brilliant political theater. They saw Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark as the foil against media lambs. The prospect of violence is what was needed to advance the cause.

[@thebcvbookchapterversepodc7886]

John Lewis was one of the most liberal and progressive politicians in politics. His godless views on marriage does NOT represent the overall majority of Black people in America. To equate homosexuality with the Civil Rights Movement is ridiculous and an insult to those who fought and sacrificed for the opportunity for us as Black people to be free.

[@user-ut1en2lt8l]

America?? Or Amerikkka?

[@andyg3240]

Jim Clark was there best asset. If not for his actions the movement would have faded into obscurity. Like it did in Georgia.

[@mrgr1m695]

Hm.

[@robertwalker7979]

"They not gonna kill Goldberg and The Undertaker". U sho the fuck right bcuz that would have started something. Now the midcard dying, now that's more negotiable. Lol

[@benjamin593]

Funny how all the folk beating John Lewis, was a Democrat. RIP brother. May your memory be not forgotten like the great Booker T. Washington has been. 🪦

[@rolandcuthbert784]

You know they were "Democrats"? The Dixiecrats were transitioning at the time because the Democratic party was looking at passing civil rights legislation. By the early 70s, the south was completely in Republican hands. You like Booker T. Washington? Haha!! What do you like about Booker T. Washington?

[@benjamin593]

@@rolandcuthbert784 I mandate "Working With the Hands" and his Magnum Opus "Up From Slavery" in their unabridged form as required reading in our curriculum.

[@rolandcuthbert784]

@@benjamin593 Mandate? What do you mean "mandate"? Up from Slavery is a book from my youth. We read about Booker T. in grade school. But also Mary MacLeod Bethune, Harriet Tubman, WEB Dubios, George Washington Carver, etc. But even that was just a fraction of "Black" History. Not sure why you think Booker T was forgotten.

[@benjamin593]

@Roland Cuthbert because he largely is. Anecdotal events and brief histories of these great men and women are the typical servings in many public schools in the US. Learning about someone during a history month is quite different from immersion in their writings in toto, unabridged. Perhaps in some areas of the U.S. there are more than cursory glimpses of bumper sticker statements being incorporated into the pedagogy. This is to say, one can learn about a subject to the exclusion of actually learning the subject. Likewise, the same could be said of the great people of the past. A statue, poster and child's book are poor substitutes for their true substance.

[@rolandcuthbert784]

@@benjamin593 Well, I went to a "Black" school. And while we covered some heroes, they could have done a better job. Of course we covered Booker T. But also Frederick Douglas, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, etc. I can't help that there is no federal mandate to study AA history. But that isn't my problem.

[@dandross]

John Lewis was a coward

[@kevnwarriner8819]

You Klans Men are all brave men behind your Computer Keyboards and Mobile Devices

[@comicnerd420]

How so coward? He's done more than you

[@osaserewizzyboo13]

Just like your father

[@Abigail-ts3qg]

Dumb

[@osaserewizzyboo13]

Yeah just like your momma

[@pattyplumber8708]

Race baiter channel

[@kevnwarriner8819]

What does that make you? Oh yeah a Race Baiter 👻 take your Pointy White Hood off 👻You even started your KZbin Channel in December of 2021