(WIAT) — On March 7,1965, peaceful demonstrators known as “Foot Soldiers” attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge for ... on a day known as “Bloody Sunday.” ...
Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed announced the removal of two billboards with the words "Make America Great Again" displayed over ...
WATCH: Harris marks 59th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Vice President Kamala Harris is among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day ...
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, which has an upcoming exhibit on the Selma march, placed the billboard ad.
They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...
Instead, as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, police assaulted them with clubs and whips and shot tear gas. On that Bloody Sunday, 17 marchers were hospitalized and dozens injured for ...
The image juxtaposed Donald Trump's political slogan with a photo of state troopers confronting civil rights marchers in ...
Speaking in Selma, Alabama, on the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday ... a crowd of hundreds gathered near the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where baton-wielding state troopers confronted ...
The 60th Anniversary of some of the most momentous events in American History will be celebrated and memorialized in Selma, ...
Associated Press Sunday, March 3, 2024 12:45 p.m. | Sunday ... Harris joined those gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where voting rights activists were beaten back by law ...
the day that became known as Bloody Sunday. That day, about 600 people had gathered at Brown A.M.E. Church in Selma, then walked peacefully on Main Street toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...