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Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist in Detroit, Michigan.She was known for going to Alabama in March 1965 to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.
Sheyann Webb-Christburg (born February 17, 1956) is a civil rights activist known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Smallest Freedom Fighter" and co-author of the book Selma, Lord, Selma. As an eight-year-old, Webb took part in the first attempt at the Selma to Montgomery march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday.
"March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Commencing March 21, 1965". Federal Bureau of Investigation. March 22, 1965. Freedom of Information Act Document: "FOIA: Selma March-HQ-1 thru 3". Archived at the Internet Archive. Thornton, J. Mills (March 14, 2007). "Selma to Montgomery March" (Archived March 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine).
March 7, 1965: Civil rights marchers beaten by police while trying to march from Selma to Montgomery March 9, 1965: Second march to Montgomery begins March 18, 1965: Alexei Leonov becomes the first person to "walk in space" March 23, 1965: John Young and Gus Grissom before being launched on the first two-astronaut mission
The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn't happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights camping along the roughly 55-mile (89-kilometer) route through ...
In March 2005, a re-enactment of the march took place to commemorate its 40th anniversary. [5] This anniversary led to the creation of a pedestrian walk around Selma. [6] In 2015 the Marion to Selma Connecting Trail was designated to connect the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail with the site of Jimmie Lee Jackson's murder. [7]
Those include the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four girls two weeks after the march; the murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County ...
Crowds watched solemnly as the body of Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge one final time, 55 years after the civil rights icon marched for peace and was met with brutality in Selma ...