Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by ...
Hundreds of marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate “Bloody Sunday.” Posted: March 9, ...
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
At the apex of the span over the Alabama River ... At the time, the Bloody Sunday marchers walked in pairs across the Selma bridge. Mauldin was in the third pair of the line led by Lewis and ...
Communities gathered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate 60 years since ‘Bloody Sunday.’ The 1965 ...
“We gather here on the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday when our country is in chaos,” said U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama. Sewell, a Selma native, noted the number of voting restrictions ...
Raby said the story of Bloody Sunday is one part of a larger ... opportunities and economic solutions in precious Alabama communities like Selma and elsewhere.” ...
Bloody Sunday 60th anniversary march in Selma, Alabama and another ceremonial march in Little Rock, Arkansas hosted by NAACP ...
“Down below we saw a sea of blue – Alabama state troopers ... Her inspiration — the Bloody Sunday marchers. Even though beaten back on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, they came back ...
Marchers commemorate 60 years since Selma, Alabama's 'Bloody Sunday" Hundreds of marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate “Bloody Sunday.” Steve Saldivar ...