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Civil Rights Movement anniversary celebration marches forward to Montgomery

Summary by The Lawton Constitution

This weekend Alabama continues to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, with a series of events in the state’s capital city intended to cause reflection, celebration and action.

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The Brunswick News

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Civil Rights Movement anniversary celebration marches forward to Montgomery

16 days ago·Brunswick, United States

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Expert: Understanding our history is important 60 years after Selma marches

Sixty years ago this week, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led civil rights demonstrators on their third attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

16 days ago·United States

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Coachella Valley Independent

Rights at Stake: Participants at Palm Springs’ International Women’s Day Rally Pledge to Fight Against Threats to Their Freedoms - Coachella Valley Independent

Clarissa Cervantes was in elementary school when she began learning about the Civil Rights Movement. Her grandparents told her about Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, and how they led a protest march for farmworkers past the family’s ranch in Coachella in the ’60s.Her mother was a teacher who insisted Cervantes and her three sisters study the people who fought for the privileges and rights they took for granted. Summer days were often spent in th…

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