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2 days ago · The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.
May 28, 2024 · Montgomery bus boycott, mass protest against the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, by civil rights activists and their supporters that led to a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional.
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May 17, 2024 · Selma is probably best known as the site of the infamous “Bloody Sunday” attack on civil rights marchers at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, and the subsequent Selma-to-Montgomery March. In 2000, the city elected its first African American mayor, marking a positive change from those turbulent days.
May 17, 2024 · The trail begins in Selma at the Brown Chapel AME Church, where civil rights activists gathered on the morning of Sunday March 7, 1965, for the first attempted march to Montgomery. It passes the NPS Selma Interpretive Center, heads east on U.S. 80 East, crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and travels by the National Voting Rights Museum and ...
May 10, 2024 · Hosea Williams was an American civil rights leader and politician who was a major figure in the struggle against segregation and served with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as organizer and advance man. He and John Lewis led the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, during.
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6 days ago · Vice President Kamala Harris told thousands gathered for the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, that fundamental freedoms, including the...
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May 17, 2024 · The first and second floors of the interpretive center contain interactive exhibits that feature news footage, photographs, artifacts, and interviews from demonstrators, law enforcement, and politicians involved in the Selma to Montgomery March.
