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SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2/14/2022
A Guide to Touring Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
Two AJC reporters offer a guide to those interested in marking Black History Month with a tour of Alabama's major civil rights sites, memorials and museums.
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SOURCE: AL.com
10/3/2021
Project Seeks to Name the Foot Soldiers of Selma's Bloody Sunday
Auburn University professors Richard Burt and Keith Hebert, working with a group of honors college students, have established a Facebook page where people can look through photographs of March 7, 1965, and identify themselves or others in the black-and-white images.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/6/2021
Stolen Confederate Monument will Become a 'Toilet' Unless ‘White Lies Matter’ Demands are Met, Group Vows
The group claiming responsibility has issued a ransom demand: the United Daughters of the Confederacy can secure the return of the chair by flying a banner quoting Black radical Assata Shakur over its Richmond, Virginia headquarters.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
3/7/2021
On the Anniversary of Selma We are Sadly Reminded: Voting Rights are Still Imperiled
by Elliott Smith
The legacy of sacrifice by voting rights activists like Amelia Boynton is being imperiled by a wave of state voter suppression laws.
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SOURCE: WTVY
2/24/2021
Auburn Professors Working to Preserve History of Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’
Richard Burt and Keith Hébert are leading a team of researchers to preserve the site of the historic attack on voting rights marchers by Alabama State Troopers on March 7, 1965, hoping that a better-preserved public monument will clear up misperceptions of the day's events.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
7/29/2020
Dropping ‘Pettus’ Is a Bridge Too Far
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Advocates of renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for John Lewis are disregarding Lewis's published thoughts on the subject.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/26/2020
John Lewis Makes Final Journey Across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma (Video)
Hundreds had gathered along the route from the church to the bridge, some traveling hours to see Lewis’s final journey, others lining up in the early morning.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News
7/19/2020
Petition Calls for Selma Bridge To Be Named After John Lewis
Advocates for the name change include filmmaker Ava DuVernay and South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn.
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SOURCE: Buzzfeed
3/7/2020
Inside The Museum Preserving Selma, Alabama's Complicated History
"The history here is so deep and I’ve got a little bit of everything here to tell its story. "
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SOURCE: USA Today
3/4/19
After 54 years, the fight for voting rights in Selma is ongoing, organizers say
A Supreme Court decision in 2013, Shelby County v. Holder, rendered much of the Voting Rights Act ineffective.
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SOURCE: Southern Methodist University
3-23-15
SMU Graduate Shares Never Published Photos of March 25, 1965 Selma-To-Montgomery March
When Southern Methodist University student Loy Williams hurriedly packed his bag before climbing aboard a bus bound to join civil rights protesters in Montgomery, Ala., he grabbed his Argus C3 camera.
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SOURCE: AHA Today
3-11-15
I liked the movie, but “Selma” missed a few teaching moments
by Julian E. Zelizer
There has been a lot written about what is wrong or right with the film Selma. Here are a few unexplored points.
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SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
3-6-15
Harvard’s Drew Faust remembers when she decided to march in Selma
She skipped her exams to participate.
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SOURCE: AlterNet
3-7-15
Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed
by Ari Berman
The laws are different, but racism persists.
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SOURCE: Life Magazine
March 1965
Life Magazine's Coverage of Selma
See how Selma was reported by Life.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3-6-15
From Selma to Black Power
by Benjamin Hedin
Only a few miles away from where the legendary march began, a new phase of civil-rights activism gathered momentum.
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SOURCE: Politico
3-5-15
GOP leaders to skip Selma event
‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.
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SOURCE: Bill Moyers & Company
3-6-15
“The American Promise” — LBJ’s Finest Hour
by Gary May
It is unusual when a presidential address stands the test of time. Lyndon Johnson’s “The American Promise” belongs in that special group of historic speeches. It still speaks to an America torn by racial discord and a challenge to the right to vote for all.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
2-18-15
The Riot That Sparked the Selma March
by Gary May
The racist violence in Selma, Alabama, 50 years ago lives in history as ‘‘Bloody Sunday,’’ but do not forget the February night of vigilantism in Marion that inspired the Selma March.
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SOURCE: USA Today
3-3-15
'Bloody Sunday' altered history of a horrified nation
Photos of that terrible day were seen around the world. Historians credit the beatings, and the public outrage that followed, as a catalyst for the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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