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As part of CBS News' coverage marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march in ... and is back in Selma to remember the watershed moment in the civil rights movement.
March 7 marks the 59th anniversary ... History She lived near Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, which became a vital meeting ground for civil rights activists in the 1960s and for the voting ...
More than three thousand people joined Dr. Martin Luther King on a march escorted by U.S. Army troops from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, becoming one of the most iconic moments in Civil Rights history.
The three marches, with the final occurring ... she noted that she became involved in the civil rights movement because race relations in Selma were so bad. “I had a vision that we could ...
Biden visited Selma on Sunday to mark the 58th anniversary of the march, now regarded as one of the defining moments in the nation’s civil rights movement. He delivered remarks at the Edmund ...
ATLANTA — Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of ... for a peaceful march for voting rights in Selma. But that peace was shattered ...
(WSFA) - A civil rights leader who started the Selma student civil rights movement was honored with a day of events, including a march, nonviolent workshops, a mass meeting and a banquet.
She had come with her older sister Linda to join a march from Selma to the state Capitol ... Some of the mightiest figures in the civil rights movement convened here, including Martin Luther ...
David Oyelowo, center, as Martin Luther King Jr. and Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King in the movie “Selma ... and complex view of the civil rights movement. Duvernay wisely resists presenting ...