Rep John Lewis is a native of Alabama. Rep Lewis is a legendary figure of the US Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Rep Lewis was present and a leader at Bloody Sunday in Selma, AL on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Edmund Pettus was a CSA general and a member of the KKK.
The bridge named for him was the site of a major event in the US Civil Rights Movement. It is fitting that the bridge change name to honor a US Congressman and cease to recognize a former CSA general. Rep John Lewis has earned this honor and many more.