Montgomery Advertiser26d
Friday makes 60 years since the Selma to Montgomery bridge crossing: 60 events to mark it
Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund ... on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the African American walkers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams had ...
Democracy Now22d
Survivors of “Bloody Sunday” Lead 60th Anniversary March Across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge
Elected officials joined large crowds in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to march across the Edmund ... rights leader turned Congressmember John Lewis across the bridge in 1965, when they were brutally ...
WSB-TV25d
Bloody Sunday: Today marks 60 years since attack on Civil Rights marchers in Selma
On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman John ... in Selma to walk across the bridge again as a reminder for what they went through. Lewis made a final ...
FOX 5 Atlanta22d
‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future
The late Rep. John Lewis and Hosea Williams led the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. SELMA, Ala. - On Sunday, March 9, 2025, a large group gathered in Selma, Alabama ...
11Alive22d
Hundreds walk across Edmund Pettus Bridge on 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday
ATLANTA — The annual march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama ... Detria Everson, President and CEO of the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation, was among those who made ...
Yahoo26d
Friday makes 60 years since the Selma to Montgomery bridge crossing: 60 events to mark it
Sixty years ago on March 7, 1965 ... That day on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the African American walkers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams had two main goals — to protest voter ...
The Victoria Advocate23d
Tens of thousands commemorate 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma
Bernard LaFayette (center, in wheelchair and cloth cap) holds his wife Kate’s hand as they are wheeled over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March ... the John Lewis Voting Rights ...
Spectrum News NY124d
Remembering the Selma marches 60 years later
A pivotal moment unfolded in Selma, Alabama, beginning on March 7 ... the funeral procession of Congressman John Lewis was led across the Edmund Pettus Bridge — the same bridge where he suffered ...
Washington Times23d
Selma marks 60th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ with remembrances, concerns about the future
SELMA, Ala. — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...
60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ Trump’s order on voting rights is Jim Crow all over | Opinion
President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea ...
Southeast Missourian23d
'Bloody Sunday' 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...