The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery. The events run from March 3-23. Highlights include a gospel and R&B explosion, a hip-hop summit and a ...
A Women’s History Month event planned for Thursday will honor the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March.
Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.
The City of Montgomery is finishing up celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March.
The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences.
Moore and Margaret Howard will share their experiences growing up in rural Perry County during the Jim Crow era and the Civil ...
Credit: Alabama State Police Organizers go public with their plan to march from Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and down U.S. Highway 80 to Montgomery. Leaders call Alabama Gov. George ...
Almost a thousand miles away, in Selma, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing to lead a 54-mile voting rights march to Montgomery, the state capital. It was a just cause, and we were eager to ...
On March 7, 1965, a day that became known as “Bloody Sunday,” hundreds of activists led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to champion voting rights.
On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama — this time under the escort of U.S. Army and ...
Tara Campbell, GirlTREK's director of place-based innovation, said that walking, both at events like the march and weekly as ...
On March 22, Ryley Tate will join a new generation of "Stars for Freedom Rally" entertainers, with a lineup that also ...