Standing at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where hundreds of Foot Soldiers were attacked 60 years ago while ...
On Sunday, March 9, civil rights leaders gathered at the City Hall steps to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Edmund Pettus.
Thousands gathered in Selma on Sunday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The 33rd annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee honored the civil rights foot soldiers who endured brutal attacks on ...
A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political ...
This Jubilee was a revival of spirit and purpose, not a retrospective, with the goal of encouraging people in the audience to fight for justice.
Reflecting on past struggles and emphasizing the importance of voting, the aging foot soldiers are urging younger generations ...
Sixty years ago this month, civil rights activists walked across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama before being violently attacked by law enforcement. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...
Hundreds of people gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to honor 60 years since Bloody Sunday. In 1965, ...
However, that didn’t stop a gang of Alabama State Troopers from assembling on the far side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they would tear-gas and violently attack the marchers with the batons.
This is an opinion column. It’s the blood for me. You don’t see it in the black-and-white photos. Or the grainy video footage of that horrific day 60 years ago. Sixty years ago, only minutes after ...