This year marks the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a moment that marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.
Friday marks 60 years since Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, the then 25-year-old John Lewis and fellow civil rights activist ...
On March 7, 1965, a pivotal moment in American history unfolded as Black civil rights activists faced brutal violence while ...
Bloody Sunday, civil rights activists warn that the right to vote is in peril due to political attacks and restrictive laws.
The legislation is named for John Lewis, the late Georgia congressman who was at the lead of the Bloody Sunday march.
John Lewis was among hundreds of peaceful protesters who were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when they were met by brutal police violence. What gave him the courage to stand ...
On March 7, 1965, a march by over 500 civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ...
Sixty years ago on March 7, hundreds of footsoldiers in the Civil Rights Movement were violently beaten and gassed by Alabama ...