Bloody Sunday: Selma marchers return 60 years later for 'ongoing fight'
Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and advocate for voting rights. Speakers at the event emphasized the ongoing fight for voting rights and the importance of civic engagement. Edgar Moore, 74, pointed to where Alabama State Troopers met him and other Bloody Sunday marchers 60 years ago.
On, March 7, 1965, about 600 people began a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate ...
65 photographs by Spider Martin on view now through June 1, 2025, at the the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts reveal an intimate, first-hand perspective of the Selma to Montgomery March in its ...
In the moments before the start of the first Selma to Montgomery March on March 7, 1965, Andrew Young gathered several of the key organizers in a field for prayer. Among them were Hosea ...
Their first attempt on March 7 ... Credit: Alabama State Police Organizers go public with their plan to march from Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and down U.S. Highway 80 to Montgomery.
Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...
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On March 25, 1965, thousands of marchers arrived in Montgomery after a 54-mile journey from Selma, demanding equal ... Reed, Montgomery's first African American mayor, will lead the city's ...
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