Fikes’ deep roots in the Civil Rights Movement date from the 1960s. As a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Fikes sat in at lunch counters, boycotted buses, registered voters, ...
A controversial billboard featuring the name of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts has been taken down, and the City of Montgomery is promising a full review.
It ended in 1956. The Selma to Montgomery March took place in 1965 in Alabama. In March, protesters walked the 54-mile route in an effort to register Black voters in the South. However ...