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James Bevel, as director of the Selma voting rights movement for SCLC, called for a march from Selma to Montgomery to talk to Governor George Wallace directly about Jackson's death, and to ask him if he had ordered the State Troopers to turn off the lights and attack the marchers. Bevel strategized that this would focus the anger and pain of ...
Bloody Sunday was a violent attack by police and a citizen “posse” on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. More than 15 marchers, who were all trying to cross the Edmund ...
She was known for going to Alabama in March 1965 to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights. On March 25, 1965, she was shot dead by three Ku Klux Klan members while driving activists between the cities and transportation. Also in the pursuit car was an undercover informant working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI ...
The Selma to Montgomery March occurred on March 21 to 25, 1965, and was led by Dr Martin Luther King. [1] This march was the culmination of several weeks of activity, during which demonstrators had tried to march on two occasions. [1] They were stopped on both occasions, once violently, by the police. [1]
55 years ago, In the spring of 1965, Lynda Blackmon was the youngest civil rights marcher to walk with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery. She was beaten by police and needed 29 ...
His Rendville photo-essay would draw the attention of Edward Steichen and led to a solo exhibition at Helen Gee's Greenwich Village gallery, Limelight. [2] Karales also drew attention from Look for the Rendville essay, and Look would go on to hire him [ 2 ] in 1960 [ 4 ] to cover and photograph both the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam.
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute. The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the events leading up to and including the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, and passage of the ...
Image credits: historycoolkids #5. This is Mary Ann Bevan. I had seen her photo on the Internet a few times with the caption: “The Ugliest Woman in the World” but thought there was more to her ...