Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.
Thirty-five students from four high schools in Atlanta spent the last three days traveling through Alabama as part of the annual John Lewis Student Civil Rights Pilgrimage.
It watched them march to the Alabama State Capitol building, leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and now ...
The event marked the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the most violent day of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for the right to vote.
The annual wreath-laying ceremony in Montgomery honored Civil Rights martyrs and the late John Lewis 61 years after Bloody ...
Civil rights leader Bernard LaFayette Jr., a key strategist behind the Selma voting rights campaign that helped lead to the ...
The Equal Justice Initiative announced a new legacy site is open in Montgomery paying homage and celebrating the decade long civil rights movement in Alabama that “changed the world.” Dubbed the ...
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On 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, worries about the future of voting rights and calls to action
Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights ...
A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that ...
Over 60 years ago on March 20, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard to supervise and protect a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
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