Word: selma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also discussed a victory in a voting rights case in Selma, Alabama in 1985, as an example of how she had learned from those she was representing...
...that moment, rejoicing on the steps of the federal courthouse in Selma, Alabama, I realized how central Derrick Bell's advice to me had been four years earlier to go south, to mix it up, to become a civil rights advocate, not just a civil rights technician, "she read from her book...
...early days of the civil rights movement, the law was no protection--rather the reverse. But as young John Lewis, son of poor Alabama farmers, said, "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?" Lewis, who led the marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, and went on to become a U.S. Congressman years later, emerges as a kind of saint, the best of the best...
...Right Reverend Barbara Harris--once a marcher with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.--was ordained as a bishop in 1989. She is currently a suffragan bishop for the Eastern Massachusetts diocese of the Anglican Church...
...using moonlight and north-facing moss to get to freedom. Years later, regiments of blacks again marched north, this time in the great migration, drawn by jobs and away from Jim Crow. In the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the most poignant images were of the march: from Selma to Montgomery, then to Washington and the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. tell of a dream. New laws signaled the next campaign: blacks and whites heading toward an integrated, egalitarian society...