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Sheyann Webb-Christburg (born February 17, 1956) is a civil rights activist known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter" and co-author of the book Selma, Lord, Selma. As an eight-year-old, Webb took part in the first attempt at the Selma to Montgomery march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday .
Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist, lived in Alabama in the mid-1950s Reggie King , former NBA player ( Birmingham ) Troy King , state attorney general (2004–2011) ( Montgomery )
Joanne Bland – civil rights movement activist [2] J.L. Chestnut – author, attorney, and a figure in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement [3] Annie Lee Cooper – long-time civil rights activist who was active in the 1965 Selma voting rights movement [4] Willis Nathaniel Huggins – historian and social activist [5]
Chris McNair, Alabama state legislator and businessman; Bert Nettles, lawyer in Birmingham; Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives from Mobile (1969-1974) Charles Redding Pitt, chairman of Alabama Democratic Party; Cecil F. Poole, federal judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit; Condoleezza Rice, United States ...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building. (Photo by Stephen F ...
Temperance activists from Alabama (1 C, 13 P) Trade unionists from Alabama (12 P) Pages in category "Activists from Alabama"
The activists were unsympathetic and demanded to know why he hadn't delivered the voting rights bill to Congress yet, or sent federal troops to Alabama to protect the protesters. [ 80 ] [ 81 ] In this same period, SNCC, CORE , and other groups continued to organize protests in more than eighty cities, actions that included 400 people blocking ...
The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business (US 80 Bus.) across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama, United States.Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. senator, and state-level leader ("Grand Dragon") of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. [2]