60 years after Selma, we face an anti-human rights backlash | Column
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...
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60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma, Americans are bleeding again
Sixty years ago, only minutes after hundreds of men and women stood on the sidewalk beyond the peak of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Stood and stared. Stared at the phalanx of gas ...
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60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
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60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ Selma hosts events focused on Black women, HBCUs
A march across the bridge, which is a highlight of the anniversary in Selma every year, is planned for Sunday afternoon. On Friday, March 7, women legal professionals from around the country will ...
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Historic events in Selma are worth remembering | INSIDE THE STATEHOUSE
Johnson in the White House. The Voting Rights Act passed later that year. Bloody Sunday was properly named. It was truly that, a bloody Sunday. Selma was the impetus for passage of the 1965 Voting ...