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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.
The bereaved families will gather on Sunday morning to recreate the route of the civil rights march which ended in tragedy 50 years ago. A number of the families told the PA news agency that the ...
The Edmund Pettus Bridge was the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965, when police attacked Civil Rights Movement demonstrators with horses, billy clubs, and tear gas [3] as they were attempting to march to the state capital, Montgomery. [2] The marchers crossed the bridge again on March 21 and walked to the Capitol building.
Bloody Tuesday was a march that occurred on June 9, 1964, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, during the Civil Rights Movement. The march was both organized and led by Rev. T. Y. Rogers and was to protest against segregated drinking fountains and restrooms in the county courthouse.
As the nation marks 58 years since Bloody Sunday, Black civil rights leaders and elected officials are committed to winning The post On Bloody Sunday anniversary, Black leaders say the fight for ...
Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit Sunday to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights The post On the 57th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday ...
She paid tribute to the civil rights marchers who walked across the bridge in 1965 knowing they would face certain violence in seeking “a future that was more equal, more just and more free.” Decisions by the Supreme Court and lower courts since 2006 have weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was passed in the wake of the police ...
Selma, Lord, Selma is a 1999 American made-for-television biographical drama film based on true events that happened in March 1965, known as Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. The film tells the story through the eyes of a 9-year-old African-American girl named Sheyann Webb ( Jurnee Smollett ).