Civil rights demonstrators, led by Dr. Martin Luther King (5th R), civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy (5th L), John Lewis ...
About 1,000 miles away, in Selma, Alabama, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing to lead a 54-mile voting rights march to the state capitol, Montgomery. It was a just cause ...
"They had an X through Selma," recalls the Rev. Bernard ... There on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "How Long, Not Long" speech.
Even though beaten back on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, they came back and eventually completed the 54-mile trek to Montgomery, 25,000 people strong on March 25, 1965. There on the steps of the ...