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2 days ago · John Lewis, American civil rights leader and politician best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and for leading the landmark Selma March in 1965. In 1986 he began representing a Georgia district that includes Atlanta in the U.S. House of Representatives.
2 days ago · Rev. George Docherty was a progressive Presbyterian minister serving in the nation’s capital. In 1965, he marched with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in a civil rights demonstration after Bloody Sunday. Docherty later criticized the Vietnam War from the pulpit of New York Avenue Presbyterian ...
2 days ago · The Rev. James M. Lawson, left, holds a news conference in Alabama just before a bus of Freedom Riders crosses the state line into Mississippi in 1961. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) The Rev ...
2 days ago · Selma’s “Courageous Eight” is a group of people who played a pivotal role in the fight for voting rights during the Civil Rights Movement.
1 day ago · In 1966 Sheriff Jim Clark of Selma, Alabama, infamous for using cattle prods against civil rights marchers, was up for reelection. Although he took off the notorious "Never" pin on his uniform, he was defeated.
2 days ago · Rev. George Docherty was a progressive Presbyterian minister serving in the nation’s capital. In 1965, he marched with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in a civil rights demonstration after Bloody Sunday. Docherty later criticized the Vietnam War from the pulpit of New York Avenue Presbyterian ...
4 days ago · Civil Rights Act, (1964), comprehensive U.S. legislation intended to end discrimination based on race, colour, religion, or national origin. It is often called the most important U.S. law on civil rights since Reconstruction (1865–77) and is a hallmark of the American civil rights movement.
