Bloody Sunday Memorial Honors Late Civil Rights Giants - Voice and Viewpoint
The commemoration of a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights for African Americans honored four giants of the civil rights movement who lost their lives in 2020, including the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, and also highlighted the continued fight for voting rights. The Selma Bridge Crossing
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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper
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Civil Rights leaders say keep ‘Bloody Sunday March’ sacred at all costs 
“We have received a number of calls from around the country with people saying they are being told the Bloody Sunday March is going to be on Saturday. We want to assure those tens of thousands of people who come to Selma because of Bloody Sunday that the Bloody Sunday March will be on Sunday, […]
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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper
Black worker at Confederate site raises race complaint
By Kim Chandler | The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama welcomes visitors at the “First White House of the Confederacy,” a historic home next to the state Capitol […] The post Black worker at Confederate site raises race complaint appeared first on The Sacramento
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Source: The Sacramento Observer
February 26: Alabama State Troopers Killed Voting Rights Activist Jimmie Lee Jackson Today in 1965
Photo credits: Southern Poverty Law Center Jimmie Lee Jackson (pictured) was an African American farmer and civil rights activist fromMarion, Alabama. Jackson was also adeaconwho served the Baptist church. He was born in Marion on December 16, 1938, to Jimmie Lee Sr. and Viola Jackson. The
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