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Sixty years ago, on March 7, Sheyann Webb-Christburg walked with 600 other activists in Selma, Alabama, to protest Black ...
Protesters from the original Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, say there is still work to be done. Thousands gathered in Selma over the weekend to mark 60 years since the historic civil ...
Beshear wrote. The Kentucky governor reportedly spoke at the 60th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march. According to the Associated Press, on March 7, 1965, marchers crossed the same bridge ...
If we were deeply divided during the last presidential election, I find we’re all in the same boat now. As I travel the ...
Credit: Photo from Spider Martin/Briscoe Center for American History On March 7, 1965 ... Chapel AME Church on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” and attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus ...
In the moments before the start of the first Selma to Montgomery March on March 7, 1965, Andrew Young gathered several of the key organizers in a field for prayer. Among them were Hosea Williams ...
WATCH: Harris marks 59th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Vice President Kamala Harris is among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day ...
Civil rights activists were feeling the effects of all this this March, even as they observed the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, one of the landmark events of the civil rights era. What were ...
I had no plans to come to Selma. What changed for me was seeing television footage of the “Bloody Sunday” events of March 7 when a sheriff’s posse, along with Alabama state troopers ...
British Soldier's Trial Over Bloody Sunday Killings to Start in September By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) - The sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 'Bloody Sunday' killings ...