Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
On March 7, 1965, hundreds of Black activists, led by John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr., set out to march peacefully from ...
The organization worked with marchers to get the federal court order that eventually allowed the march from Selma to Montgomery to take place after Bloody Sunday. Voting is the way to make change ...
Historian Forest Issac Jones reveals how the US Selma to Montgomery march influenced the civil rights movement in Northern ...
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
Credit: Photo from Spider Martin/Briscoe Center for American History On March 7 ... the marchers left Selma’s Brown Chapel AME Church on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” and attempted ...
Members of Congress joined with Bloody Sunday marchers to lead a march of several thousand people across ... John Lewis and Hosea Williams walked in pairs across the Selma bridge headed toward ...
The 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the Selma March to Montgomery will be commemorated this weekend with events focused on the themes of education equity, Historically Black Colleges ...
Speaking at the 60th anniversary commemoration of Bloody Sunday and the Selma-to-Montgomery March on Sunday, Webb-Christburg said she thinks voting rights are in peril. “Back in the 60s ...
Some on horseback, some shoulder-to-shoulder blocking U.S. Highway 80 — the route to Montgomery ... Selma 2025: Click here for event calendar As we honor six decades since “Bloody Sunday ...
Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.
The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences.