President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea ...

Last weekend I joined a group of colleagues, civil rights leaders, and community members in Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham for the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. It is an important time to ...

On Sunday, March 9, civil rights leaders gathered at the City Hall ... with brutal police repression in what came to be known as Bloody Sunday. Siegel, who attended the Ebenezer Church in Atlanta ...

The civil rights leader’s speech came after the horrors of Bloody Sunday, the frustrations of Turnaround Tuesday (March 9, 1965), and the three-day march to Montgomery weeks later. By the time he ...

The path to the bridge Sunday ... Civil Rights era. A Jackson contemporary was John Lewis, the Alabama activist who was nearly killed on the bridge. Lewis became a symbol of triumph after Bloody ...

Selma (ALABAMA), March 10 — Hundreds gathered Sunday in Selma, Alabama to mark the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when a group ... “We’re here to remind people that there are human and civil ...

Hundreds gathered on Sunday in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when a ... remind people that there are human and civil rights that we are all entitled to.

Hundreds gathered Sunday at the Edmund Pettus Bridge to symbolically replicate the historic Bloody Sunday march that took place 60 years ago. But the real way to honor the memory of those Civil Rights ...

"Bloody Sunday" catalyzed support for Black civil and human rights and led a few months later to the passage of the Voting Rights Act, a federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. Donald ...

hundreds of Foot Soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement were violently beaten and gassed by Alabama State Troopers while marching across Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge in a brutal event that would come ...