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Mar 27, 2024 · The Selma-Winchester tornado ranked as an EF-3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which the weather services uses to assess tornadoes. The last EF-3 to hit Randolph County was in March 10, 1986.
The reputation of Martin Luther King Jr. soared after the protests in Birmingham, and he was lauded by many as a hero. The SCLC was much in demand to effect change in many Southern cities. In the summer of 1963, King led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where he delivered his most famous speech, "I Have a Dream".
Mar 7, 2024 · UPDATED: 9:30 a.m. ET, March 7, 2024. The historic “ Selma to Montgomery marches ,” the first of the three protest marches known as “ Bloody Sunday ,” took place 59 years ago on Thursday ...
Mar 6, 2015 · The Rev. James Reeb, a former minister at All Souls Church Unitarian, died in the days before the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Fifty years later, the church reflects on how he ...
Approximately at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 7, 1965, 300 protestors, led by Hosea Williams, John Lewis, Albert Turner and Bob Mants, gathered at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma and proceeded through town to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. At that point, the number of the marchers had swelled to 600 as they crossed the span from Selma toward their ...
Apr 4, 2016 · The First March: Bloody Sunday. On March 7, approximately 600 non-violent protestors, the vast majority being African-American, departed from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma with the intent on marching 54-miles to Montgomery, as a memorial to Jimmy Lee Jackson and to protest for voter's rights.
Mar 7, 2021 · If you were in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, and would like to tell your story or can help identify marchers, contact Auburn University’s Keith Hébert at heberks@auburn.edu or Richard Burt ...
