BY JUSTIN PELIGRIRep. John Lewis (D – Ga.) was seriously injured in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. exactly 50 years ago this weekend-
Story by the Associated Press; curated by Dave Urbanski SELMA, Ala. (AP) — President Barack Obama says America's racial history "still casts its long shadow" despite a half-century of progress toward a more perfect union.
Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, President Obama, and U.S. Representative John Lewis mark the fiftieth anniversary of the civil-rights marches between Selma and Montgomery. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY. The report of the Department
One of the civil rights movement's most prominent leaders was absent from the historic re-staging of the 1965 march across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on Saturday. Two presidents — including the country's first African American
Civil rights leader Diane Nash, who helped organize the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, refused to take part in this weekend's commemoration alongside former President George W. Bush. “I refused to march because