House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.), the son of civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson, walk across Edmund ...
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
“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 ...
Her inspiration — the Bloody Sunday marchers. Even though beaten back on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, they came back and eventually completed the 54-mile trek to Montgomery, 25,000 people strong on ...
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 ...
This weekend marks 60 years since the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery which came to be known as Bloody Sunday. In 1965, civil rights activists organized the march to press for voter ...
Journal Downtown Selma on March 6, 1965 was a typically busy Saturday, so shoppers didn’t pay much attention to a group of ...
FOX 13 Chief Political Investigator Craig Patrick dives into America's civil rights leaders completing their 54-mile march ...
Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn... 60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma SELMA, Ala. — People make the pilgrimage annually to walk ...
“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 ...
Then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace ... scene as state troopers break up the demonstration on what is known as Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965. President Lyndon Johnson gave a pivotal speech to ...