Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
The historic city of Selma, Alabama, is preparing to welcome thousands of visitors for the 60th anniversary commemoration of “Bloody Sunday” and the subsequent Selma-to-Montgomery ...
On March 7, 1965, a pivotal moment in American history unfolded as Black civil rights activists faced brutal violence while ...
On March 7, 1965, civil rights activist, John Lewis along with over 600 people set out to march across the Edmund Pettus ... event at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial bridge and statue to ...
Bishop Bill McGill of Imani Baptist Temple and Minister George Hicks of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Club are ... to march across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge and make it to the state capitol ...
The Roanoke Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is commemorating the March 7, 1965, March for Voting Rights at 4 p.m. Friday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza on Henry Street.
The Southern Poverty Law Center hosted its annual wreath laying ceremony Friday. Hundreds gathered at the Civil Rights Memorial Center for the event that recognized the unwavering courage of 40 ...
On March 9, 1965, two days after the attack on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, about 450 ministers and others of goodwill whom Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had recruited from across the country to help ...
That year, a diverse group of people and advocates, led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the late Sen. John Lewis, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to protest for the rights of ...
The video showed prominent Black male activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and ... Civil rights activists march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., ...
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