On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. As they ...
Wallace announced Saturday he would not let Negroes march from Selma to Montgomery Sunday ... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and 300 civil rights demonstrators trooped down Jefferson Davis Highway ...
Sr. Lum’s other nursing positions include Good Samaritan School of Practical Nursing in Selma, St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in Elmira, New York, University of Rochester Nursing and Nurse ...
During Selma's 60th anniversary of the voting rights campaign, civil rights activists prepare for a second Donald Trump presidency. Linda Lowery was just 14 years old in 1965 when she marched 54 ...
Selma is targeted by a campaign ... he is shown as someone who supports civil rights but who doesn't want King and the activists to push their own timeline onto him as president, and that he ...
Several scholars refer to the Civil Rights Movement as the Second Reconstruction, a name that alludes to the Reconstruction after the Civil War. Timeline: Brown v ... Jr. awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ...
But now, Carrington says, racism comes in a different form. Dianne Harris, who was 15 when she marched in Selma and now works as a civil rights historical tour guide, remembers when King was invited ...