(WIB) – Although many freedom fighters and faith leaders make the yearly March pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama in commemoration of the hundreds of civil rights activists injured by police on March 7, ...
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
The center is located on a bluff above the Alabama River, the channel where enslaved Africans were shipped to Selma. From an outside deck, you can see the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the distance.
At the apex of the span over the Alabama River, they saw what awaited them ... who was 17 at the time. Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday.
At the apex of the span over the Alabama River, they saw what awaited them ... who was 17 at the time. Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday.