Home where King's Selma marches were planned opens to public at Greenfield Village

The home that belonged to Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson was restored to look as it did in 1965.
Smithsonian Magazine

The Events That Took Place in This Selma, Alabama, Home Were Key to the Civil Rights Movement, and You Can Now Visit It

The Jackson family opened their home to civil rights leaders planning the Selma-to-Montgomery march, which led to the passage ...
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Here is everything you need to know about Bloody Sunday

This weekend marks the 61st anniversary of the march on Selma, otherwise known as “Bloody Sunday.” One of the most violent marches of the Civil Rights Movement, the protest took place on March 7, 1965 ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

On 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, worries about the future of voting rights and calls to action

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about ...
Time

Transcript: Read Full Text of President Barack Obama's Speech in Selma

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