Rep. John Lewis took his final trip across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Sunday.
Lewis’ flag draped casket, pulled by horse and carriage crossed the rose petal covered bridge where the civil rights icon and congressman was nearly killed while leading the 1965 march for voting rights.
Lewis was among 17 people hospitalized as the group was attacked and beaten by police with clubs, fracturing Lewis’ skull. Years later, he said he thought he would die on the bridge that day, that has since become known as ‘Bloody Sunday.’
