He is part of the "This Side of the Bridge" celebrations happening in Montgomery on March 21-23. It's the culmination of the ...
We should join each other in brotherhood and sisterhood, as one race." "My encouragement ... Even though beaten back on Selma ...
We should join each other in brotherhood and sisterhood, as one race ... back on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, they came back and eventually completed the 54-mile trek to Montgomery, 25,000 ...
Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 disallowed discrimination in voting on the basis of race ... the plight of Selma’s African American population with a 54-mile march to Montgomery.
That day became known as "Bloody Sunday," when activists attempted to peacefully march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, while on their way to Montgomery, the state's capital. They were ...
The late Georgia Congressman John Lewis was one of the leaders of what was supposed to be a march from Selma to Montgomery ... and sisterhood, as one race." "My encouragement to them is get ...
The event marked the tragic and vicious March 7, 1965 prelude to the 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery ... is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997.