MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: Rename Edmund Pettus Bridge For John Lewis, 'An American Hero' by Jeremy Gerard

One of the many salutary after-effects of Ava DuVernay’s Selma has been renewed interest in that city’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a violent confrontation between people marching for civil rights and Alabama state police half a century ago. Closing his Last Word program on Tuesday night, O’Donnell movingly argued that the bridge, named for a decorated Confederate Army general and later Grand D…

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