John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7 ... in non-violent protest tactics 60 years ...
Sixty years ago on March 7, hundreds of footsoldiers in the Civil Rights Movement were violently beaten and gassed by Alabama ...
In 1966, Simone wrote and performed “Four Women,” a musical portrait of different stereotyped Black women who were exploited ...
Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
In 1965, the Selma marches marked a significant turning point ... were a powerful demonstration of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience The marches were organized by Martin Luther King ...
Two days later, James Reeb, a Unitarian minister who arrived in Selma after the attacks to support the protest, was severely beaten after leaving an integrated restaurant on the evening of March 9th.
On March 7, 1965, one of the most vicious attacks by American law enforcement on American Citizen's in U.S. history occured in an event known as Bloody Sunday.
Much civil disobedience and nonviolent protest already is occurring ... the spirit and essence of the five-day, 54-mile Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights that took place March 21 to ...