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hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman John Lewis, gathered for a peaceful march for voting rights in Selma. But that peace was shattered on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by ...
We went to Selma, Alabama to find out. 60 years ago, on March 7th, 1965, civil rights activists led by among others, a very young John Lewis led a march across this bridge, the Edmund Pettus ...
She was there on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago and ... as the biggest challenge to civil rights since the 1960s. “People are afraid,” Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. (D) told a room ...
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...
Today, there's new generations of civil rights activists in Selma ... faced off with violent state troopers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge. (SOUNDBITE OF EXPLOSION) UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Yelling).
Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... members of congress and civil rights veterans will gather in Selma to commemorate the 60 th anniversary of ...
SELMA, Ala. — Florence Richardson knows all too well the grim story of Bloody Sunday. She was there on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago and recalls it as vividly as if it were yesterday ...
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...