I normally keep these “1000 Words” posts wordless but this one is unique. I didn’t stumble on this image on the internets it’s actually from photographer Mark Tucker from here. Of course being from Alabama and knowing the history of this man, U.S. Congressman John Lewis and this bridge I had to post ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson | Democrat The quotation is taken from a speech Johnson made to Congress on March 15, 1965, introducing the Voting Rights Act. At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lex ...
(IRAN: A Nation Of Bloggers from ayrakus on Vimeo.) In 1964, American voting rights activist and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer spoke words into history by saying, “I have been tired for 46 years and my parents were tired before me and their parents were tired; and I have always wanted to do s ...
Selma, Alabama, from its famous bridge. Here Alabama state troopers twice successfully prevented Civil Rights marches led by Martin Luther King from crossing the Alabama River. The city has not altered its appearance in forty years.
Southern Belles will be watching for their loved ones to return home from the battle again this weekend when the Battle of Selma reenactment returns to Riverside Park. The event is in its 23rd year and features school tours, a memorial service, night cannon firing, antebellum ball to which even the ...
