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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
VALPARAISO | Watching the Oscar-nominated American historical drama film "Selma" is an emotional experience for many viewers, even those born long after the events based on the 1965 Selma to ...
The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the now-infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on ...
The calendar tells me I’m getting old. Fifty years ago, in Selma, Alabama, I was getting educated. A college student in Wisconsin at the time, I ventured south to participate in the civil rights ...
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