About 1,000 miles away, in Selma, Alabama, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing to lead a 54-mile voting rights march to the state capitol, Montgomery. It was a just cause ...
In the third week of his drive to register Negro voters in Selma, Ala., and environs,the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliberately set out to get himself and his followers arrested. He succeedd ...
Selma 1965 Presenter, Jim Hall, is a life-long resident of New Mexico. Jim grew up at Ghost Ranch Conference Center where his ...
Owens said Gandhi’s Salt March was “an inspiration to oppressed people around the world,” and that King’s subsequent Selma ...
A century after Emancipation, and after the enactment of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, it should not have been necessary for Martin Luther King Jr. to stage marches in Montgomery, Birmingham and ...
King led several nonviolent campaigns in Birmingham, known at the time as "the most segregated city in America." ...
Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would go on to become the ... beaten by Alabama State Troopers on Bloody Sunday in Selma in 1965. Horrifying images of the violence were ...