Who Was Edmund Pettus?

     This isn't new to most Alabamians, but CBS reports the fact that the bridge on which Selma to Montgomery Marchers were beaten was, and still is, named for a Confederate Officer and KKK Leader.
     The Network interviews the director of the recently completed movie SELMA about the irony of her film taking places in such a location:

"I imagined [Pettus] turning over in his grave a little bit [and him] thinking 'where did it all go wrong? This was not supposed to happen,'" she says, of what a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan might have thought about a black woman directing a film about a black man so revered that the nation named a holiday for him."