Tag: Selma
Selma-to-Montgomery march camps top list of endangered sites
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn't happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights...
For Black Voters Matter, the goal is greater community power
LaTosha Brown opened with a song.
Speaking about voting rights...
Stolen Confederate chair monument back in place — with glue
SELMA, Ala. — A Confederate monument that was stolen and became the object of an odd ransom scheme is back in an Alabama cemetery...
Mississippi city honors Freedom Rider legacy 60 years later
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's capital city is honoring the civil rights activism of the late Rev. C.T. Vivian 60 years after he and other...
Arrest warrant issued for man in Confederate monument theft
SELMA, Ala. — Police in Alabama have issued an arrest warrant for a man in connection with the bizarre theft of a Confederate monument...
Strange theft of Confederate chair mystifies Alabama town
SELMA, Ala. — It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair...
Lawyer: 2 arrested had no role in Confederate chair theft
NEW ORLEANS — A lawyer for of the two people arrested on charges of possessing a stolen Confederate monument that was taken from an...
Stolen Confederate monument recovered in New Orleans
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Authorities have recovered a Confederate monument that had been stolen in Alabama and was the subject of a ransom note threatening...
Ransom note threatens to make Confederate monument a toilet
After a Confederate monument was stolen from an Alabama cemetery last month, a group now claiming responsibility is threatening to turn the ornate sculpture...
The US Civil Rights Trail from SC to Mississippi and more
From the port where enslaved Africans entered America to the home where Medgar Evers was murdered, a new guidebook helps readers explore for themselves...
