The bill, H.R. 14, would strengthen the legal protections against racial discrimination in voting and representation.
The world saw that. Alabama lawmen, strongarms of the state, swung batons. Lewis fell, his head cracked open by a club.
Sixty years ago on March 7, hundreds of footsoldiers in the Civil Rights Movement were violently beaten and gassed by Alabama ...
In a move to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the historic Selma to Montgomery March, U.S.
"People are afraid," Selma's mayor told more than 30 Congress members at the start of a weekend of remembrance.
The John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation has unveiled two new plaques to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first Selma-to-Montgomery March.