Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights icon remembered in Selma

Dr. Lynda Blackmon Lowery – Photo from Foot Soldiers Park, Selma, Alabama Dr. Lynda Blackmon Lowery is being remembered in Selma for her lifetime of dedication to the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Lowery died on Christmas Eve at the age of 75. She is remembered as a Selma foot soldier, Bloody Sunday survivor, author, educator and mental health professional. Dr….

Unseen photos of Rosa Parks returning to Montgomery, a decade after the 1955 bus boycott

Historic photos of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks have been made public for the first time, showing aspects of her legacy that are often overlooked. The photos were taken by the late Civil Rights photographer Matt Herron, and they depict Parks at the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 — a five-day-long, 54-mile trek that is often credited with…