MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would alter the name of Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge to honor those who were beaten on the bridge as they marched ...
Among the civil-rights era's holiest shrines is the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where demonstrators famously confronted a hostile all-white police force on March 7, 1965. Images of the ...
In October, he walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama — an iconic location in the Civil Rights movement. Father Davis said the two trips formed a “full circle” experience and gave ...
A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews ... at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama ...
FILE - Amelia Boynton is aided by people after she was injured when state police broke up a demonstration march Boynton helped lead on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma, Ala., March 7 ...
A Unitarian minister from Boston, Reeb was among many white clergymen who joined the Selma marchers after the attack by state troopers at Edmund Pettus Bridge. Reeb was beaten to death by white ...
Black women were among the organizers and counted among the marchers brutalized on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, during the historic march in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery that preceded ...
Amazing pencil drawings: Graphite has always been the favourite medium for artists to portray their creativity. Amazing artworks through pencil is not limited to 2D, there are numerous artists who ...