SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon. A processional with Lewis’ casket ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama ...
Crowds watched solemnly Sunday as the body of Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge one final time, 55 years after the civil rights icon marched for peace and was met with brutality in ...