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Civil rights activist who took part in the 1963 protest, that became known as the “children’s march,” has died. As a young Black woman, Mamie King-Chalmers appeared in an iconic photograph about that civil rights demonstration in Alabama in 1963.
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This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides in Alabama.More than 400 civil rights activists boarded buses, trains, and planes to oppose…
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A local civil rights leader is being celebrated in Selma today. Caravans are driving throughout the neighborhoods where pastor and educator Dr. F.D. Reese…
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“At that time, we’d been singing songs, we shall overcome, and before I’d be a slave…be dead and buried in my grave,” says Bennie Lee Tucker. He’s seventy…
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The Selma City Council is declaring March 15th to be "F.D. Reese Day" in the community. Frederick Douglas Reese was 88 when he died in 2018. He had been…
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Admirers of Dr. Martin Luther King, junior have the opportunity to snag a unique piece of memorabilia. An auction house is offering pages of an old jail…
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From April of 2018...“If you did not know him, and had never heard anything about him, and were to go into a room where he was seated, he was a person who…
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Today marks a moment in Alabama civil rights history. It was on this date in 1955 when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a…
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama home once occupied by the Rev. A.D. King, the brother of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is being added to the…
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — One of Alabama’s largest public school districts has named its first black superintendent.The Jefferson County Board of Education…