This year marks the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a moment that marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. The march turned ugly and Lewis was almost beaten to death after enduring ...
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of a historic march in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful protestors advocating for African American voting rights were violently attacked on ...
The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...
Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman John ...
Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, 600 marchers protesting for voting equality left the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma headed for the state capitol in Montgomery. Before they had even left town, ...
Correspondent photos / Sean Barron Those who attended a program Sunday at the Tyler History Center in Youngstown to commemorate the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” on March 7, 1965, in Selma, ...
A woman laid out in the street, unconscious. Troopers lined up, armed with batons. A telegram from Massachusetts reacting to the violence. As a twentysomething freelance journalist at the Birmingham ...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act becoming law. But before that was Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. Channel 2′s Fred Blankenship returned to Selma to relive that dark ...
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