So now, The Root is taking a closer look at the anti-racist white heroes who were just as down for civil rights as Black ...

Civil rights hero John Lewis will make the journey from Selma to Montgomery one last time ... on a lone pilgrimage across Edmund Pettus Bridge and on to Alabama’s Capitol, where he will ...

These words were chanted by hundreds of people as they paraded from West Salem to the Oregon State Capitol on Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma ... to ...

Civil rights hero John Lewis will make the journey from Selma to Montgomery one last time ... At 10 a.m. Sunday, his body will be carried on a lone pilgrimage across Edmund Pettus Bridge and on to ...

Once, when the family visited Lewis in his congressional ... emerged in Shelby County, Alabama. Martin Luther King III also paid tribute to Southall and hundreds of Selma activists who marched to ...

His beating in 1965 on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... friend and mentor Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned. “It must be done because the struggle is not over," Lewis told former ...

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John Lewis in his ... Alabama. Martin Luther King III also paid tribute to Southall and hundreds of Selma activists who marched to Edmund Pettus Bridge and beyond in March 1965.

Reading about history is fascinating, but experiencing a historic location firsthand is unmatched. Our recent road trip to the southeastern U.S. was primarily meant to offer an escape from Minnesota ...