The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which ...

JTA’s Selma coverage documented ... yarmulke as a symbol of their movement. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who famously walked with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the front of the march to ...

African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, centre) at the third march from Selma to ...

On MLK Day, whispers of memories of my time in Selma, Alabama, return. They’re dream-like recollections, faint but never forgotten, blurry with sharp edges. At dawn six years ago, I walked ...

She and several other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day ... marching across the bridge, being chased by a Selma deputy and Alabama state trooper.

During Selma's 60th anniversary of the voting rights ... She and several other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day, taking it upon themselves to demonstrate for ...