As the marchers left Selma’s Brown Chapel AME Church on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” and attempted ... the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and approximately 25,000 others to complete ...
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
SELMA, Alabama — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1965 for voting ...
To look at this photo is to see what will come next. Not just over the course of a month in 1965, but into the future that is ...
Advocates are gathering in Selma, Alabama, this weekend to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" amid ... The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. followed up with a three-day march from Selma ...
Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.
Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...
On March 7, 1965, hundreds of Black activists, led by John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr., set out to march peacefully from ...
More: Detroit man was on phone with Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife during ... are the events of Bloody Sunday. The very first attempt at the Selma to Montgomery march was on March 7, 1965, and ...
The National Civil Rights Museum will host a ceremony to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memphis.