Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were protesting white officials ...
SELMA, Ala. (WTVD) -- Fayetteville author Chuck Fager has returned to Selma to mark the 50th anniversary of a march that changed the face of the civil rights movement. Fager is one of the people who ...
SELMA, Ala. -- Broad Street was already shut down at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, yet the traffic lights still switched from red to yellow to green on the road leading to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Barricades ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama ...
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 ...
Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. SELMA, Ala. • Thousands of people crowded an Alabama bridge on Sunday, many jammed shoulder to shoulder, many unable to move, to ...
On March 25, 1965, the historic Selma to Montgomery March concluded with 25,000 people listening to Martin Luther King in his “Not Long, How Long?” speech at the Alabama state Capitol. Two weeks ...
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) -The Craighead County NAACP held an event on Saturday, March 22 to commemorate Bloody Sunday when Civil Rights protesters marched in Selma, Alabama in March of 1965. The group ...
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 ...
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