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Rhode Island eighth graders trek south to learn about the Civil Rights Movement
Each winter, eighth grade students at the Gordon School take a trip to Alabama and Georgia to visit historic sites associated ...
Selma to Montgomery foot soldiers share experiences at program hosted by Montgomery Interpretive Center
A Women’s History Month event planned for Thursday will honor the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March.
Selma to Montgomery march: Central New York was there (Your Letters)
Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.
A half-century ago marching at Selma
Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...
American Civil Liberties Union3d
Anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ Marks Continued Fight for Voting Rights
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...
Dothan Eagle4d
'Bloody Sunday' 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future
SELMA — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were protesting ...
Truthout4d
Democrats Push State-Level Voting Rights Act Protections
Bills have been introduced in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey this session.
Opinion
The Vindicator5dOpinion
60 years later, we have not overcome
The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...
The Demopolis Times6d
Days Gone Bye: An unlikely march marshal
By Tom Boggs In March of 1965, sixty years ago, a large contingent of National Guard units were federalized, and ordered to ...
Democratic Gov. Beshear vetoes GOP bill to dismantle DEI efforts at Kentucky's public universities
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed a GOP-backed bill Thursday to dismantle diversity, equity ...
J. The Jewish News of Northern California7dOpinion
‘Despair is not a strategy’: Marching in Selma, 60 years later
The Israelite community comes together to accomplish a momentous task, constructing the sacred center for its collective life ...
WPRL17d
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, protesters say much still needs to be done
Sixty years ago this month, civil rights activists walked across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama before being violently attacked by law enforcement. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.