TULSA, Okla. — A group of local activists just returned from Selma, Alabama. They were chosen to participate in a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where 60 years ago, people ...
Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, 600 marchers protesting for voting equality left the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma ...
In this episode of Our Journey Forward, we focus on "The Bridge," one of the most powerful and emotional moments of our journey. The episode centers on the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, ...
Jackson finished second in the Democratic primary to Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who would go on to lose the 1988 presidential election to George H.W. Bush. But Jackson’s strong results ...
SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - In celebration and commemoration of the anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, people from all across Alabama gathered at the Civil Rights Memorial Park in ...
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama senators are seeking to rename Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, a historic site in the voting rights movement that also bears the name of a Ku Klux Klan officer.