"They had an X through Selma," recalls the Rev. Bernard Lafayette, now 84, who was part of SNCC — the Student Non-Violent ...
The Carolinian, en route from New York City to Charlotte, was stopped on the tracks south of Selma while firefighters isolated and put out the fire in the Cafe' car. An Amtrak train passing ...
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...
"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.
In January 2023, Selma was hit by a tornado. Allen says since then, they have been committed to helping revitalize those affected neighborhoods through their service. “The homes that it did not ...