peaceful demonstrators known as “Foot Soldiers” attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge for voting rights in Selma. In their attempt, they were brutally attacked by state troopers ...
The SCLC planned a march to Montgomery for Sunday, March 7, 1965. George Wallace swore to stop it. That Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge near Selma, the marchers encountered a cordon of state ...
Cambridge resident Roy Davis remembers approaching Edmund Pettus Bridge for the first time during the march from Selma to ...
(WSFA) - Many tourists will walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge this week to commemorate the 59th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March. Bridge ...
I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, made famous when Martin Luther King Jr. marched across it in ...
At dawn six years ago, I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge ... gonna come.” Every March, celebrities and dignitaries walk with the townspeople on that bridge, retracing the steps of King ...
A woman looks at T-shirt with the likeness of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. before a symbolic walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Sunday, March 8, 2015, in Selma, Ala. | Bill Frakes ...
I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, made famous when Martin Luther King Jr. marched across it in 1965 to advance civil rights in our country. However, ...