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Throughout March ... Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, led by Lewis and Hosea Williams. Marchers demand an end to discrimination in voter registration. At the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state ...
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. In honor of the ...
Here, a boy waves from a porch as more and more demonstrators join the 50-mile march from Selma to the state capitol of Montgomery, Alabama on March 22, 1965. Here, students from City College of ...
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 ...
Some acts of history are worth more than a moment of remembrance — they deserve action. That belief inspired Daviess County ...
The Selma-to-Montgomery March began two weeks after Alabama state troopers beat marchers attempting to leave Selma on a day that came to be called “Bloody Sunday.” Sites in Selma and the route ...
the historic Selma to Montgomery March concluded with 25,000 people listening to Martin Luther King in his “Not Long, How Long?” speech at the Alabama state Capitol. Two weeks earlier ...
On March 22, Ryley Tate will join a new generation of "Stars for Freedom Rally" entertainers, with a lineup that also ...
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 ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The City of Montgomery is finishing up celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March ... to the Alabama State Capitol, just like ...