Marching for Justice - Ava DuVernay’s Selma Revisits the Struggle for Civil Rights

Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement

Many on the Left are wondering what to do against the Trump administration’s vicious assaults on workers, immigrants, and free speech. We can look to the example of US civil rights activists, who kept taking great risks even after demoralizing setbacks. Martin Luther King Jr (left) discusses the Montgomery bus boycott with other organizers, including Rev. Ralph Abernathy (second from left) and Rosa Parks (third from left), January 27, 1956, in …

Marching for Justice - Ava DuVernay’s Selma Revisits the Struggle for Civil Rights

Most people don’t realize the profound impact of the 1965 voting rights march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This historic event, vividly brought to life in Ava DuVernay’s film Selma, serves as a powerful reminder of the struggles and sacrifices faced by those fighting for civil rights. As you probe into this story, […]

60 Years Later, Charles Mauldin Recalls a Pivotal Moment in Alabama’s History

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times When then 17-year-old Charles Mauldin decided to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago, he didn’t just see it as an opportunity to make history, but…

Sixty Years After Selma: The Unfinished Fight for Voting Rights and Equality.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sixty years ago, on Sunday, March 7, 1965, John Lewis and the Rev. Hosea Williams set out on a nonviolent march with a group of 600 men, women, young people and children headed from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. They were seeking the right to vote and protesting the tragic death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old Black church deacon and military veteran who had died Feb. 26 from injuries he received eigh…

Dr. Martin Luther King 60 Years Ago – LaborPress

Montgomery, AL – Sixty years ago this month Dr. Martin Luther King led the march that changed history. The last leg of the march led by Dr. King ended at the  Alabama State Capitol. At that time, there were very few Black citizens registered to vote in Alabama. The Selma marches led directly to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Black Americans were guaranteed the right to vote in 1868 with the enactment of the 14th Amendment to the U.

Marking 60 years since “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama

60 years ago Friday, hundreds of civil rights advocates who gathered to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were met by ... source