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, ...
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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody ...
In his first term as mayor of Selma, Joe Smitherman watched police beat civil rights demonstrators embarking on the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. On Tuesday, after 36 ...
Following the Bloody Sunday crackdown in Selma, Ala., Martin Luther King Jr. called for support across the U.S. People of different races and... 'A Proud Walk': 3 Voices On The March From Selma To ...
On March 25, 2015, around 3,000 marchers participated in a commemorative march starting at Montgomery's City of St. Jude and ending at the Capitol Building in Downtown Montgomery, Ala., reenacting the ...
*The NAACP today released the following statement regarding its letter sent to state officials around the nation regarding the issue of voter suppression. On the 52nd anniversary of the Selma to ...
OpenAI stated that it implemented this feature in response to complaints from King’s estate, as well as his daughter, Bernie ...
TULSA, Okla. — A group of local activists just returned from Selma, Alabama. They were chosen to participate in a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where 60 years ago, people ...
Thousands of Alabamians attended protests around the state Saturday against President Donald Trump and his administration.