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Robert Woodward Barnswell (1849–1902) Episcopal Bishop of Alabama [2]; Katharine Hopkins Chapman (1870-1930), author and historian [3]; William Joseph Hardee (1815-1873) Confederate Lt. General from Camden County, Georgia whose published military battlefield tactics were used by military commanders from both the North and the South.
Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1905 – August 26, 2015) was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, [1] and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.
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Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a church at 410 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Selma, Alabama, United States.This church was a starting point for the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and, as the meeting place and offices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the Selma Movement, played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of ...
Funeral services for Selma Police Officer Gonzalo Carrasco Jr. will be in downtown Fresno. The services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at the Fresno Convention Center.
Annie Lee Wilkerson Cooper was born on June 2, 1910, as Annie Lee Wilkerson in Selma, Alabama as one of ten children of Lucy Jones and Charles Wilkerson Sr. When Cooper was in the seventh grade, she dropped out of school and moved to Kentucky to live with one of her older sisters, but later obtained a high school diploma. [5]
Boynton grew up in Selma, Alabama. [1] His parents were civil rights activists, known in their community as Mr. and Mrs. Civil Rights, because of their participation in events like the Bloody Sunday march of 1965. [2]
Mants was born in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] He graduated in 1961 from East Point/South Fulton High School, [1] a segregated black high school. While he was attending high school, Mants was a member of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (which would later develop into the Atlanta Student Movement) and volunteering for administrative tasks at the headquarters of the Student Nonviolent ...