By Michael Nam
A group of men and women, all white, gathered at the Live Oaks Cemetery in Selma, Ala., while 50th anniversary celebrations of the watershed civil-rights march took place nearby, according to The Guardian. The cemetery is the final resting place of many a Civil War soldier, including Edmund Pettus, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and Confederate general whose name can be found on the bridge that stood at the heart of the 1965 march led by Dr. Martin Luther King.
The pro-Confederacy crowd allegedly showed up to guard the site, which also features a memorial to the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, because of a proposed march by an activist student group, Students Unite, attempting to get the Edmund Pettus Bridge to be renamed through a Change.org petition.
