WebMar 1, 2024 · Tear gas fumes fill the air as state troopers, ordered by Governor George Wallace, to break up a demonstration march in Selma, Ala., on Bloody Sunday on 7 March 1965. Photograph: AP WebMar 8, 2024 · By 1965, there were counties in Alabama where not a single black person had voted in any election for the previous 50 years. In Selma, Alabama, where only 130 of …
Selma Marches National Archives
WebFeb 21, 2024 · A peaceful march in protest of racial injustice set out from Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, but was met with violent resistance from local law enforcement in an event that became known as... WebMar 6, 2015 · John Lewis, Hosea Williams, Andrew Young, Amelia Boynton and other marchers singing "We Shall Overcome" outside Brown Chapel, morning of The First Selma March, March 7, 1965. On "Bloody Sunday ... literally luxe
Selma, 50 years after march, remains a city divided
WebThe youngest person in the 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, demanding voting rights for African-Americans says she still has the scars inflicted by police with attack dogs. Fox … WebMar 6, 2015 · On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks … WebMar 7, 2015 · Forrest’s most passionate friend in Selma is Pat Godwin, known here as the Wizardess, who calls the 1965 voting rights march “the mother of all orgies,” and tells telephone callers in a ... importance of having a clean home