Three members of Congress accused the Trump administration of trying to erase part of Alabama’s history Saturday in speeches outside a Montgomery landmark of the Civil Rights Movement.
The bill, H.R. 14, would strengthen the legal protections against racial discrimination in voting and representation.
Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of racial equity.
In a move to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the historic Selma to Montgomery March, U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (AL-07) has spearhea
On March 7, 1965, a march by over 500 civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; state troopers and a sheriff’s posse fired tear gas and beat marchers with batons in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
The John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation has unveiled two new plaques to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first Selma-to-Montgomery March.