He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was ...
The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which ...
Alabama, return. They’re dream-like recollections, faint but never forgotten, blurry with sharp edges. At dawn six years ago, I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. The sun tried to ...
Black History Month this year falls on the 60th anniversary of many crucial moments of the Civil Rights Movement that would ...
I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, made famous when Martin Luther King Jr. marched across it in ...
They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...
Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed announced the removal of two billboards with the words "Make America Great Again" displayed over ...
Lowery remembers when she was 14, marching across the bridge, being chased by a Selma deputy and Alabama state trooper. On the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Lowery recalled, she ran into a crowd of tear ...
The Black students were joined by white, mostly Jewish neighbors, the first interracial civil rights protest in the country.
I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, made famous when Martin Luther King Jr. marched across it in 1965 to advance civil rights in our country. However, ...