They planned to peacefully march 54 miles to the state capital in Montgomery. Instead, as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, police assaulted them with clubs and whips and shot tear gas.
John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr.
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A 'misstep': Controversial MAGA Bloody Sunday billboards removed in Montgomery, AlabamaMontgomery Mayor Steven Reed announced the removal of two billboards with the words "Make America Great Again" displayed over ...
The 60th Anniversary of some of the most momentous events in American History will be celebrated and memorialized in Selma, ...
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 ...
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Marching for justice: John Lewis's journey as a civil rights iconHe led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.
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