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With "Selma," director Ava DuVernay ... One of the most vexing facts of cinematic life the past 50 years is that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement he led have not been ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. kicks off a voter registration drive at the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Ala., on Jan. 18, 1965, flanked by the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, left, the Rev. Ralph ...
A tornado devastated much of the historic city of Selma, the Alabama city that played a key role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights campaign.
David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma.” Atsushi Nishijima “Do the Right Thing” This 1989 Spike Lee modern classic isn’t about MLK, but it is about racial tension in a ...
Selma brings Martin Luther King, Jr. to life as an all-too-human man grappling with the pressures of leading a Civil Rights revolution. The movie features exquisite performances from the likes of ...
We will cross Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma this weekend, as we commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Rev. Martin Luther King, flanked by Hosea Williams (left) and the Rev. Bernard Lafayette, discusses plans for a poor people's march on Washington at an Atlanta news conference on Jan. 16, 1968.
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A lot was happening in March 1965 in the bungalow in Selma, Alabama, that then-4-year-old Jawana Jackson called home, and much of it involved her “Uncle Martin.” There were late-night visitors ...
The Jackson House, where the civil rights movement leader planned the Selma to Montgomery marches, will be dismantled and trucked more than 800 miles to The Henry Ford Museum's Greenfield Village.
Three civil rights activists from Selma, Alabama, remember what they marched for in 1965, ... She and several other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day, ...