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Remembering the Selma marches 60 years later

  • The 60th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March will be commemorated with events focused on education equity and Black women judges.
  • The march on Bloody Sunday occurred on March 7, 1965, when demonstrators were beaten by officers while marching for voting rights.
  • Abina Billups, co-founder of Salute Selma, Inc., stated, 'All of the rights we enjoy today came at a cost, and Selma was at the epicenter of that sacrifice.'
  • The anniversary will include educational events highlighting Black women and HBCUs, along with a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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Annapolis Heritage Commission approves new plaque honoring the Annapolis Five at the Graduate Hotel

The Annapolis Five, a group of African Americans who were denied service at a restaurant in 1960 because of the color of their skin, will receive a new, larger plaque on West Street to honor their role in advancing the civil rights movement in Annapolis. The 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination in public places and integrated schools but nearly four years earlier, the fight for civil rights was well underway across the country and in An…

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‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — 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.

·Hamilton, Canada
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'Bloody Sunday' 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future

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 white officials’ refusal to allow Black Alabamians to register to vote, as well as the killing days earlier of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a minister and voting rights organizer who was shot by a state trooper in nearby Marion. At the apex of the span over the Alabama Rive…

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60 years after Bloody Sunday, celebrating progress while voting rights struggle continues

MARCH 7 marked the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when 650 civil rights marchers were savagely beaten by police and attacked by police dogs as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, heading to the state capital in Montgomery to demand that African Americans have the right to vote.   It stands as a solemn moment in the US civil rights movement – one that stirred the conscience of the nation, including drawing to Selma a Bost…

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Newly restored photos show the ruin of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma on its 60th anniversary

James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state troopers. (Image credit: Spider Martin)

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"We were second-class citizens': Civil Rights foot soldiers reflect on Bloody Sunday 60 years later

Selma commemorates the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday this weekend, reflecting on the historic march for voting rights and the violence that ensued.

·Birmingham, United States
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