Hundreds of people rallied at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama ... March 9. Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images People hold signs with a picture of late civil rights leader ...
In early 1965, civil rights leaders — in an effort to draw attention to Alabama ... Selma line up at the county courthouse to register to vote, but are denied. Source: Civil Rights Movement ...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...
Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights ... Selma bridge crossing jubilee ahead of Super Tuesday. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) SELMA ...
Hundreds gathered Sunday in Selma, Alabama ... rights and led a few months later to the passage of the Voting Rights Act, a federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. On Sunday, there ...
This is the second year Emory students have participated in the tour organized by the A. D. King Foundation, a non-profit ...
SELMA, Ala. (AP ... of “Bloody Sunday,” a landmark event of the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett, File) FILE – An Alabama state trooper swings a club at John Lewis ...
Hundreds gathered Sunday in Selma, Alabama ... Rights Act, a federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. On Sunday, there was a festival atmosphere as crowds stopped to take ...