Credit: Alabama State Police Organizers go public with their plan to march from Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and down U.S. Highway 80 to Montgomery. Leaders call Alabama Gov. George ...
Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.
first-hand perspective of the Selma to Montgomery March in its entirety. ByChadd Scott Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the ...
The City of Montgomery is finishing up celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March.
Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.
Almost a thousand miles away, in Selma, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing to lead a 54-mile voting rights march to Montgomery, the state capital. It was a just cause, and we were eager to ...
This weekend Alabama continues to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, with a series of events in the state’s capital city intended to cause reflection ...
On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama — this time under the escort of U.S. Army and ...
March to the Capitol (1:00pm, City of St. Jude to the Alabama State Capitol) A reenactment of the final leg of the Selma to Montgomery March, ending at the Alabama State Capitol-the same site ...