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Selma: ‘Marching to the Freedom Dream’ Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, some 600 demonstrators set out to march 50 miles from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., to support the voting rights of ...
A pair of volunteers, both black, drove the all-white group from the airport to Selma; throughout the march, volunteers were dispatched to shuttle people (as well as supplies) between Montgomery ...
More than three thousand people joined Dr. Martin Luther King on a march escorted by U.S. Army troops from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, becoming one of the most iconic moments in Civil Rights histo… ...
Now, half a century on, his extraordinary images are seen here for the first time As they marched 54 miles in five days, Dan Budnik was there every step of the way, bearing witness to the hopes ...
On view now at the New York Historical Society, The 1965 March: Stephen Somerstein Photographs Freedom’s Journey from Selma to Montgomery features the work of a then 24-year-old City College ...
History was about to made that Sunday in Selma, Alabama, 50 years ago, when Dr. Martin Luther King would lead some 8,000 marchers through town on their way to Montgomery and the freedom to vote.
First came the movie; now the exhibition. "Freedom Journey 1965: Photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March" is opening at the New-York Historical Society on Friday. It follows the pivotal Civil ...
During Black Expo's Summer Celebration in July, that iconic photograph and other Somerstein images from the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches will be on display for three days to the public.
Spider Martin’s work documenting the march from Selma to Montgomery is on display at the Levine through February 22. Archival audio for this story came from Pacifica Radio Archives. Tags ...
Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.
On Sunday, Montgomery will look a little different than it did on March 7, 1965, when the Selma to Montgomery march took place. On Sunday, people will gather in Alabama to celebrate what the march ...
Cleveland history: Martin Luther King left the historic Selma voting rights march -- now dramatized in the movie "Selma" -- to make a turbulent flight to Cleveland for a testimonial dinner in ...