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SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Thousands gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to celebrate and memorialize Civil Rights leaders who marched in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. The Edmund ...
On the evening of March 25, 1965, Viola Liuzzo, the 39-year-old mother of five children, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan ...
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for enfranchisement for Black Americans. Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, ...
Sen. Cory Booker started and finished his record-breaking speech protesting the Trump administration's aggressive policy ...
Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. “He ...
Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus ... brutally attacked civil rights protesters, Jackson crossed the bridge in a wheelchair.
the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. “He endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, at lunch counters, on freedom rides. He said he had to do something. He would ...
We will cross Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma this weekend, as we commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. "He endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, at lunch counters, on freedom rides. He said he had to do something. He would not ...