Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson: 1 book
The House by the Side of the Road
The Selma Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and six hundred followers set out on foot from Selma, Alabama, bound for Montgomery to demand greater voting rights for African Americans. As they crossed the city’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, state and local policemen savagely set on the marchers with...
