Paul Schwitzgebel says photos taken by the late James Karales are too important ... others along a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to the capital city of Montgomery to demand voting rights.
Montgomery, and Birmingham. Sewell highlights the ongoing struggle for voting rights and the need for collective action. Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. grew up when Jim Crow laws still reigned in ...
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 ... of voting rights discrimination. This ...
Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded ... a Black Alabaman, the Rev. James Reeb, a Unitarian minister from Boston, and Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights activist ...
Two weeks later, I traveled from Mississippi to join Lewis, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and approximately 25,000 others to complete the Selma-to-Montgomery march. This time, we had the ...
Participants walked slowly, purposefully, silently and in pairs to capture the spirit and essence of the five-day, 54-mile Selma-to-Montgomery ... after a trooper named James B.
Selma, Alabama, has a population less than 20,000 people. As organizers welcome thousands of visitors to commemorate the 60 th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, planners say 2025 ...
Organized by the Rev. James Bevel of the Southern Christian ... time for a dramatic gesture — a march from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery, 54 miles away. On March 7, 600 protesters ...
Aided by Father James Robinson ... Even though beaten back on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, they came back and eventually completed the 54-mile trek to Montgomery, 25,000 people strong on ...
Aided by Father James Robinson ... Even though beaten back on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, they came back and eventually completed the 54-mile trek to Montgomery, 25,000 people strong on March 25, ...
More than 40 members of Congress are expected to join the Faith & Politics three-day trip, which includes stops at historic sites in Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma. Guests will also include ...