article_snippet: Continuing to honor Pettus -- a Confederate general, U.S. senator and white supremacist -- is insulting to America's civil rights heroes.
article_snippet: When the Edmund Pettus Bridge was built in 1940, Jim Crow ruled Alabama.
article_snippet: Dallas County blacks had no say in the bridge being named to honor a Reconstruction-era white supremacist.
article_snippet: I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.
article_snippet: Places such as Jefferson Davis' Beauvoir estate along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the Statue of Liberty (turning Robert E. Lee back to the North) need historic preservation.