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With the massive cuts in Government social programs accompanied by new repressive anti drug laws came severe brutalization by police, and entrapment reached new heights. Communities of color were basically under siege. Millions were criminalized. The.
The Riot That Sparked the Selma March
The brutal attack on voting rights activists on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 50 years ago this March 7 shocked the nation and forced LBJ to put a voting rights bill at the top of his legislative agenda.. Night marches were always potentially dangerous.
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Live coverage: Selma is a place where this nations destiny was decided.
5:51 p.m.: E.C. Wade brushed tears from behind her black sunglasses in Selma on Saturday as President Barack Obama took the stage at the famous bridge where peaceful demonstrators protesting for black voting rights were beaten on Bloody Sunday 50 .
Saturday Afternoon Reads: Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.
Thats the day police beat demonstrators attempting to march to Montgomery in support of voting rights. Some of the most iconic images of that day were captured by a white photographer ��� the late Spider Martin. Spider Martins real introduction to. The New York Daily News has a wonderful gallery of photos of the events leading up to the Selma to Montgomery march, which began on March 21, and concluded on March 25, 1965. Here are two of the photos. Please��.
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The majority of registered voters in Selma are now black ��� along with most of the city, whites having fled in the decades since their African-American neighbors gained access to the ballot box. More than.. Thousands, including President Barack.
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March 7, 1965 | Civil Rights Marchers Attacked in Selma.
18 voter registration march in a nearby city. The New York Times on March 8 described the days events. As the demonstrators crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, they were ordered by the police to disperse.
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. on Saturday during a commemorative ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the events of ���Bloody Sunday��� when over 600 non-violent protesters were attacked by Alabama state troopers as they attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights.
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Police kept watch on the dispute, but no arrests were immediately reported. The protesters. Demonstrators walked about four miles and repeated outrage over the killings of unarmed black men by white police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island in New York City.. National NAACP President Cornell Williams Brooks told the crowd their forerunners fought too hard for voting rights and equal education and against discrimination to be silent now. Brooks��.
Demonstrators marching for equal voting rights were beaten
All the protesters knew it. It was February 1965 in racially-divided Alabama. Long-simmering tensions between black residents and police were threatening to boil over in the city of Marion. A homegrown movement to gain equal voting rights for .
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Born in New York City, Schwerner and Goodman were among the many Jewish-Americans who worked for African-Americans equality. However, white volunteers. The staunch refusal of Southern states, towns, cities ��� and many of their citizens ��� to address.
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While the demonstrators were at the park, a Hayward Police officer pulled up in a squad car and inquired about the intentions of the protesters. The police officer was looking into a concern that the large group of people was��.
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Those events led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, after the historic Alabama marches that year from Selma to Montgomery, which Mr. Shuttlesworth also helped organize. The laws were the.. rights marches. As a crowd crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where demonstrators were beaten and tear-gassed on ���Bloody Sunday,��� March 7, 1965, Mr. Obama pushed Mr. Shuttlesworths wheelchair. Source: New York Times��.
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The movie Selma is being screened for free to the residents of Selma, which was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which police beat protesters who were marching to demand voting rights for African Americans. Picture taken January 8, 2015.. He is a respected commentator on politics and cultural issues, and has been cited by major publications such as The Washington Post and The New York Times. Matt is from Myersville, MD and��.
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My eyes were hurting. My head was hurting, and New York was screaming over the telephone, whats going on? Whats going on? And I tried to pull some women back out of the street, and it was just awful. It was one of the lowest days of my life. At that day, I lost. The march was supposed to be from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., demanding voting rights, but the marchers were stopped soon after you started marching, and you were beaten by the police. Would you talk��.
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In the nine months preceding the first announcements that Fort Apache was going to be filmed in the South Bronx, twelve unarmed blacks and Puerto Ricans in New York City were shot or beaten to death by police, including: ���Peter Funches, a black. The New York Daily News, in a full-page feature, described Zarem as the ���super-flack��� responsible for the ���I Love New York��� campaign, which Zarem called ���the most successful public relations campaign in history.
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New York City ��� On Monday, 1/21/2013, the day millions around the world celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., a group of protesters rallied in front of the house of Jabbar Campbell, then they marched to the 77th police precinct in.. The NYPD started a separate internal investigation in October, after two cops (one of them was Officer Luis Vega) were caught on video beating an unarmed young man in a synagogue in Crown Heights, the same neighborhood��.
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Protestors marching for black voting rights were beat after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, and for the 50th anniversary this weekend President Obama will visit the landmark and give an address. Most area .
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The majority of registered voters in Selma are now black ��� along with most of the city, whites having fled in the decades since their African-American neighbors gained access to the ballot box. More than.. Thousands, including President Barack.
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But the next month, the council adopted a new budget peppered with Sawant-sponsored amendments ��� including an immediate wage hike for city employees, money to support tent encampments and a commitment to study a possible excise tax on millionaires.
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40 Comments / 40 New. John Lewis beaten in Selma, March 1965. Thats John Lewis getting the billy-club treatment in Selma, Alabama, March 1965. His skull was fractured when police went berserk. I wish I was surprised.
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news �� sports �� opinion �� Arts �� blogs �� the statement �� Ann Arbor. The movie is based on the marches for voting rights during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.. As protestors in the movie were gassed, beaten, whipped and just generally violently attacked by police officers on the road to Montgomery, who wasnt thinking of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York and all of the people of color publicized in the papers recently that have��.
France on Fire
On January 13, two days after millions in France marched to commemorate those assassinated by Islamist radicals the week before, Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls gave a stirring speech in the French National Assembly that was celebrated by.
Day Four: Berkeley protesters breach freeway again.
Tuesday was the fourth night in a row that demonstrators took to the streets in Berkeley to protest the recent decisions by grand juries in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City to not indict white police officers in ordering flagyl the. ���After approximately 23 minutes, CHP personnel were able to clear the freeway, however, some of the demonstrators turned violent, hurling rocks, projectiles, and incendiary devices at CHP personnel.. Berkeley daily planet 12/10 has video
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History came to Selma ��� then left it behind
Irby, 36, a black mother of two, lives about a 20-minute drive from the iconic bridge named for a Reconstruction-era Alabama Ku Klux Klan leader and U.S. senator, and the spot where demonstrators were set upon by police in an event known as Bloody.
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Obama will deliver remarks at Selmas famed Edmund Pettus Bridge, where some 600 peaceful voting rights activists were attacked as they marched on March 7, 1965, a day which became known as ���Bloody Sunday.��� The first, failed. Get breaking news from TheJournal.ie via Facebook.. Stirring Daily �� Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Share Big News About Divorce Stirring Daily. Undo. Inside the 25-year fight to let Irish LGBT people march in New York on Paddys Day.
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The documents, which were obtained as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department, make no reference to a spontaneous demonstration or Internet video. Separate emails obtained in April 2014 demonstrated that senior .