Anita Bennett editorAva DuVernay is helping to raise awareness about efforts to rename Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge after Civil Rights activist and U.S.
Rep. John Lewis.DuVernay added her name to a Change.org petition urging Alabama’s governor to change the name of the historic bridge.
The filmmaker, who helmed the 2014 drama Selma, about the voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, tweeted a link to the petition on Saturday.“I’ve just signed a petition about this bridge to dignity as seen in SELMA,” she wrote. “It is named after a KKK grand wizard and confederate warlord.
Edmund Pettus Bridge should be the John Lewis Bridge. Named for a hero. Not a murderer. Join this call. It’s past due.” I’ve just signed a petition about this.
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