Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, a key turning point in American history transpired in the heart of Alabama, when hundreds of peaceful demonstrators marching for Black voting rights were violently ...
Mayors from across Alabama gathered in Montgomery this weekend to participate in a roundtable hosted by the Counter ...
Fifty-one years ago this week, hundreds of people marched from Selma ... weeks later, Martin Luther King Jr. led a successful march across the bridge to the state capital with Heschel by his ...
In honor of all the sacrifices made on behalf of civil rights foot soldiers 60 years ago, the following 60 events are ...
The historic city of Selma, Alabama, is preparing to welcome thousands of visitors for the 60th anniversary commemoration of “Bloody Sunday” and the subsequent Selma-to-Montgomery ...
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.
That day on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the African American walkers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams had two main goals — to protest voter suppression, and to air their demands for ...
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