It’s a story we think we know well. It’s 1965, and the Civil Rights Movement is in full swing. Thousands are marching on Montgomery, protesting the treatment of Black Americans. But what about ...

Alabama. A voter registration campaign in Selma had been launched back in 1963 by local African Americans, who ended up forming the Dallas County Voters League. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ...

Dallas County, which includes Selma ... said the needs of the entire Black Belt in Alabama, not just Selma, are manifold and include water, sewage and educational infrastructure as well as ...

But it’s not where you might expect. Far from Oakland, the Black Panther and its principles came from just outside Selma, Alabama. Lowndes County, Alabama: a county where every single thing ...

But historians and Selma natives say the marches wouldn't have come about without eight people in particular, all members of the Dallas County (Alabama) Voters League, known as the Courageous Eight.

Six died in Autauga County, Alabama, about 40 miles northeast of Selma, where a tornado cut a 20-mile long path across two rural communities, wrecking dozens of homes, said Ernie Baggett ...

In Selma, Mayor James Perkins Jr. said at ... Sumter and Autauga counties in Alabama. In Georgia, Butts County Deputy County Manager J. Michael Brewer confirmed that a five-year-old boy was ...