King leading the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, ... that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has entered the American pantheon for what he achieved in just 13 years on the public stage.

We will cross Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma this weekend, as we commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Approval rating sinks Stop mocking me Get the latest ...

She's the little girl in that famous photo at the feet of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he preached a fiery sermon in Alabama. At 7 years old Sheyann Webb-Christburg became known as the "smallest ...

King later appeared in the paper for one of his most famous marches, the 1965 march on Selma. On March 7, several hundred marchers attempted to peacefully protest while crossing the Edmund Pettus ...

COATESVILLE — About 500 marchers peacefully reenacted the 1965 Edmund Pettus Bridge/Selma to Montgomery March for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2024. Amid blustery weather and holding signs above ...

Standing on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Igor speaks with veteran journalist and ThinkProgress columnist Sam Fulwood III about the ...

In Focus: Martin Luther King Jr. Day. ... march quickly turned violent as police with nightsticks and tear gas met the demonstrators as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.

A walk honoring Martin Luther King Jr. will close the St. Johns Bridge for cars from 9am to noon on Saturday. Detour via Interstate 405 and Fremont Bridge.

More than five decades after he was slammed in the head by a white state trooper's billy club while he led a march on behalf of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ...

It was the mid-1960s, the height of the civil rights movement. Police had beaten voting-rights demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. A bomb had exploded in a Birmingham church ...

“She sang to Dr. King on the phone and gave him the courage to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. ... Martin Luther King, Jr (1929 - 1968) at a press conference in London, ...