Brenda Haywood, a former member of Nashville's Metro Council, was 14 years old in 1965 when civil rights activists were ...
A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political ...
Cooper, Western Carolina University (THE CONVERSATION) Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9 ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma ... himself out of Martin Luther King.” ...
Reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march, highlighting the ongoing struggle for civil rights and ...
Led by figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, the marches were met with violence from counter-protesters and local law enforcement—like the “Bloody Sunday” attack on the Edmund Pettus ...
John Lewis in a vintage photo taken in Selma ... I traveled from Mississippi to Alabama to join Lewis, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and about 25,000 fellow citizens to walk the 54 miles from Selma ...