He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.
Dave Markward has studied racism in America since a trip to Selma, Alabama, in 2018 opened his eyes to the prevalence of ...
In March 1965, a walk for voting rights took five days to make the journey from Selma to Montgomery. On Saturday, Feb. 22, a group will use bicycles to make the same trip in hours.
I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... Krakow’s Jews were forced to march across the Pilsudskiego Bridge in 1941 to a segment of the city where the Nazis walled them in.
John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr.
African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, centre) at the third march from Selma to ...
College professor recounts a civil rights tour, and wonders how to share such topics with students without breaking the law.
Applications are now open for Miami-Dade County District 1 high school students to join a spring break expedition exploring pivotal civil rights landmarks across the South. This unique program ...
Amelia Boynton Robinson, born in Savannah, Ga. is a civil rights icon who impacted the lives of people across the nation.
The 60th Anniversary of some of the most momentous events in American History will be celebrated and memorialized in Selma, ...