Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Bernard LaFayette, speaking in November 2022 at American Baptist College. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) Rev.

Khadija “Kookie” Reeves — daughter of York native Lois Lambert Reeves — called me. Less than 48 hours earlier, I had asked her the same question before playing an audio recording from the early 1960s.

NASHVILLE, T.N. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of ...