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Robert Trent Jones Trail

    Some would say that Selma, Alabama has a hallowed place in the Civil Rights Movement, right along with Montgomery and the March on Washington.

    It was on Bloody Sunday, "March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma.
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    Today, more than some forty years later, the Edmund Pettus Bridge - still sacred ground - presents a more tranquil view as it spans the Alabama River that leads into the business district of downtown Selma.