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'Foundation of the bridge': Recalling 'Courageous Eight' who risked all to spearhead Selma marches
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNearly 60 years ago, Black leaders organized three marches from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the...
Andrew Young was at Martin Luther King's side throughout often violent struggle for civil rights
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 12 months agoAndrew Young’s first thought when he heard the Voting Rights Act had been signed into law was not...
Two stories about women who have made a difference
Foster's Daily Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGuy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, write about a woman they each considered a hero.