He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.
African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, centre) at the third march from Selma to ...
I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, made famous when Martin Luther King Jr. marched across it in ...
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, which has an upcoming exhibit on the Selma march, placed the billboard ad.
They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...
I took a tour group to Alabama in 2015 to trace the American Civil Rights Trail, running in a triangle from Birmingham to Montgomery to Selma and back to Birmingham.
I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, made famous when Martin Luther King Jr. marched across it in 1965 to advance civil rights in our country. However, ...
At dawn six years ago, I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. The sun tried to peek over a cloudy horizon, and cotton blooms swayed in the light breeze like sea oats near the sea.
Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed announced the removal of two billboards with the words "Make America Great Again" displayed over ...
College professor recounts a civil rights tour, and wonders how to share such topics with students without breaking the law.