Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence ... changed the face of American politics," says Alabama Democrat Terri Sewell, who grew up in Selma and ...
As the world commemorates the 60th anniversary of the seminal events at Selma a fascinating new study has cast fresh light on ...
A Birmingham News article on March 8, 1965, by Tom Lankford opened with the line “It was an eerie, unreal scene at the Pettus ...
It's been 60 years since the historic Civil Rights March in Selma, Alabama. Protesters demanded equal voting ... of the problems those marchers sought to highlight six decades ago - segregation, ...
The groups and institutions that built our modern multiracial democracy are critical to sustaining it.
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn... 60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama ...
It's been 60 years since the historic Civil Rights March in Selma, Alabama. Protesters demanded ... sought to highlight six decades ago - segregation, poverty and gun violence.
"What took place on that bridge literally changed the face of American politics," says Alabama Democrat Terri Sewell, who grew up in Selma and now represents ... but it's dealing with the whole ...