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    Not a particularly great picture, but no visit to Selma is complete without a shot of the Edmund-Pettus Bridge, the site of "Bloody Sunday" incident in 1965, where civil/voting rights protesters were beaten by troopers while trying to cross the bridge in a march toward Montgomery. The brutality of the event and the images broadcasted nationwide helped spotlight the civil rights issues at that time, and sparked several other marches to Montgomery to protest voting discrimination. These incidents helped the formation of the congressional Voting Rights Act of 1965.