The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.
The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.