Augustana to host annual Stone Lectureship in Judaism
Augustana College will host the annual Stone Lectureship in Judaism, “Navigating history: Civil Rights and the Jews of Selma ...
The Selma Times-Journal3d
The day before Bloody Sunday, Alabama Whites march for Civil Rights
Journal Downtown Selma on March 6, 1965 was a typically busy Saturday, so shoppers didn’t pay much attention to a group of ...
Richmond Times-Dispatch4dOpinion
Commentary: In today's battle against injustice, look to Selma
When I think about what we can learn from the Selma marches, the single most important advice I give is to listen to others.
Milwaukee Community Journal4d
BLOODY SUNDAY AT 60: This Is Not a Celebration!
The anniversary arrives as a stark warning that the right to vote, paid for in blood that day, is in peril. By Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier, article courtesy of the Atlanta […] ...
How Jesse Jackson embodied Southern politics − and changed American elections
A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political ...
WVTM 138d
'Efforts to erase our history afoot': Alabama representatives speak out against potential sale of Freedom Rides Museum
WELL, TONIGHT, OUTRAGE AMONG ALABAMA LEADERS AS THEY NOW WORK TO PROTECT CIVIL RIGHTS ... AND THEY ARE INTRODUCING NEW ...
60 years later, Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ draws visitors from around US: ‘It’s a journey for all of us’
Wynola Fuller, who lives in Fairfield, remembers the events of 1965. She also remembers going to Selma previously in her youth to visit relatives. Yet, Sunday was Fuller’s first time returning to ...
Historic Selma church at heart of Civil Rights Movement gets $1M in renovation funds
Brown Chapel A.M.E Church in Selma, Alabama, a pivotal location during the civil rights movement, is undergoing a $1 million ...
Spokane Public Radio9d
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
MyNorthwest10d
‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...
WVTM 1311d
"We were second-class citizens': Civil Rights foot soldiers reflect on Bloody Sunday 60 years later
YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO EITHER GO BACK TO YOUR HOMES ... PLACE IN SELMA AHEAD OF THE BRIDGE CROSSING JUBILEE, COMMEMORATING 60 YEARS. LAWMAKERS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY. FOOT SOLDIERS WHO WERE THERE IN ...