Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...
Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...
Hundreds gathered at the Civil Rights Memorial Center for the event that ... cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 60-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. ⁣ “As Congressman Lewis said, the ...
James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was ...
SELMA, Ala. (WALA ... Hundreds showed up at the Civil Rights Memorial in downtown Montgomery. On hand was Georgia Congresswoman Nikema Williams -- who now holds Lewis’ seat.
‘Local’ issue Today, “Selma” is remembered as a watershed moment for civil rights – and a national ... including members of the Dexter Avenue Memorial Church and Brown Chapel African ...
They include the Lincoln Memorial ... in Selma, Alabama; Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas; the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s where sit-ins began; the National Civil Rights ...
several of which gained national prominence and helped raise Americans' awareness of the calamities of the 1960s civil rights movement. Much of his archive from those monumental Selma protests ...
Vice President Kamala Harris and many others walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge commemorating the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march in 1965, Sunday, March 3, 2024, in Selma, ...