This Jubilee was a revival of spirit and purpose, not a retrospective, with the goal of encouraging people in the audience to fight for justice.
In honor of all the sacrifices made on behalf of civil rights foot soldiers 60 years ago, the following 60 events are ...
Thousands gathered Sunday at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to hear lawmakers’ words of encouragement. Among these ...
Over the years, survivors and civil right leaders have gathered in Selma to walk across the bridge again as a reminder for what they went through. Lewis made a final trip across the bridge in ...
‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future
The Bloody Sunday marchers walked in pairs across the Selma bridge. Mauldin was in the third pair of the line led by Lewis and Hosea Williams. “We had steeled our nerves to a point where we were ...
Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago today when they were met by a wall of police. Protesters were tear gassed and beaten.
Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery.
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 ...
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