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60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
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1965 Selma to Montgomery March Fast Facts
June 4, 2015 – After a state resolution to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge is not acted upon, Lewis and Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Alabama), publish an article in the Selma Times-Journal in favor of ...
The 44 percent: Rap lyrics as street names, Black school closing, Jazz in the Gardens
I remember the first time I heard Angie Stone. No, it wasn’t the “No More Rain (In This Cloud),” which samples Gladys Knight ...
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60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a sacred place in America’s civil rights history. It also was named after a Grand Dragon of the state Ku Klux Klan. There’s a strong generational divide on renaming it. Her ...
People gather at Edmund Pettus Bridge for 60th Bridge Crossing Jubilee
Thousands gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge to celebrate and memorialize Civil Rights leaders who Marched in ...
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People gather at Edmund Pettus Bridge for 60th Bridge Crossing Jubilee
SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Thousands gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to celebrate and memorialize Civil Rights leaders who marched in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. The Edmund ...
Survivors of “Bloody Sunday” Lead 60th Anniversary March Across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge
Elected officials joined large crowds in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, commemorating the ...
Hundreds walk across Edmund Pettus Bridge on 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday
Hundreds marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge honoring 60 years since Bloody Sunday. Activists say the fight for voting rights continues, urging civic engagement.