As everyone knows, Black history is America history. Our struggles and victories have affected this country for centuries, ...
On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. As they ...
Detroit Lions defensive end Trey Flowers tells the story of the Selma marches and Bloody Sunday. On the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and in celebration of Black ...
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, which has an upcoming exhibit on the Selma march, placed the billboard ad.
At one point, desperate that the march in Selma is going ahead too soon, there is a suggestion in the film that LBJ gives the go-ahead for Hoover’s FBI to do something to try to undermine King.
The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail in Alabama memorializes the route taken by marchers during the Voting Ri ...
This year, many of the conversations surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day have involved the new movie “Selma,” about the historic marches from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama in 1965.
Part of his legacy includes leading a march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery in March of 1965. Demonstrators were fighting racial voter discrimination. It’s been nearly 60 ...
But in Selma during the early 60s, the racial divide fueled protests and clashes over civil rights that eventually reached a boiling point on March 7, 1965, the day that became known as Bloody Sunday.
The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail traces the route of the 1965 Voting Rights March, where civil rights protestors were attacked by police, raising support for the Voting Rights Act of ...