Selma March

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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: 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: 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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• SOURCE: AP
  3-3-15
  

  Civil Rights Landmark Bridge is Named for Reputed KKK Leader

  The fact had all but faded from local memory until recently, when a Selma student group launched an online petition to rename the landmark bridge.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3-2-15 (accessed)
  

  Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed

  by Ari Berman

  Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

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• 2-27-15
  

  Selma Is Now? No, Not Really.

  by James B. LaGrand

  2014 ≠ 1965 or 1955 or the 1890s

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  2-17-15
  

  These Iconic Photos Of The 1965 Selma March Give A Powerful Glimpse Of The Historic Protest

  Photographer Stephen Somerstein chronicled the Selma demonstration through a series of images that authentically portray the events that took place over the course of the 54-mile march.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-15-15
  

  Photographs of the Selma March Get a Broader View

  Spider Martin, a photographer for The Birmingham News in Alabama, captured the weekslong events of Selma in 1965 and other events of the civil rights era.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  1-6-15
  

  10 Things You Should Know About Selma Before You See the Film

  by Emilye Crosby

  There is a "people's history" of Selma that we all can learn from—one that is needed especially now.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  1-15-15
  

  What Happened in Selma?

  by Alan Singer

  As a result of the focus on King, two of the civil rights movement's more powerful vignettes, both covered in the documentary Eyes on the Prize, are left out of the movie.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1-14-15
  

  These Rare Photos of the Selma March Place You in the Thick of History

  James Barker, a photographer from Alaska, shares his memories of documenting the famed event