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4 days ago · Selma is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb. It is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches which were initiated and directed by James Bevel [5][6] and led by Martin Luther King Jr., Hosea Williams, and John Lewis.
1 day ago · Alabama police in 1965 attack voting rights marchers on "Bloody Sunday", the first of the Selma to Montgomery marches. Prior to the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 there were several efforts to stop the disenfranchisement of black voters by Southern states,. [ 7]
Aug 14, 2024 · Book Sources: Bloody Sunday - Selma to Montgomery March (1965) A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library. Click the title for location and availability information.
Aug 21, 2024 · March 7 marks the 56th anniversary of a march from Selma to Montgomery organized by Civil Rights activists to protest unfair voting rights in Alabama. This year’s commemoration of what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday” will be the first without Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who died last summer.
Aug 6, 2024 · Nearly a century after the Confederacy’s guns fell silent, the racial legacies of slavery and Reconstruction continued to reverberate loudly throughout Alabama in 1965. On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewisled over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama...
Aug 13, 2024 · 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...
Aug 7, 2024 · A resolution condemning the killing of 14 individuals and violence on Bloody Sunday, one of the most tragic of days during the Troubles 50 years ago, and calling on all parties to take meaningful steps toward peace and reconciliation.
