SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - “The Alabama Solution” shows problems in the Alabama prison system from the inside: whether it be allegations of overcrowding, rampant violence, the influx of illegal drugs, or ...
The gathering marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
On March 7, 1965, young civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of peaceful marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama - and was met with unimaginable violence. Beaten and left ...
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...
"We got to the highest point on this bridge," Lewis said in an interview with NPR, standing on the bridge ten years ago. "Down below we saw a sea of blue – Alabama state troopers." Then-Alabama Gov.