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 ...
60 events to mark it The original Voting Rights Act came about as a result of the Selma to Montgomery March after Bloody Sunday. In 2013, the Supreme Court disbanded a portion of the law that ...
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
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 ...
Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...
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 ...
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.