On the Dangerous Road to Selma
On the Dangerous Road to Selma This morning I drove west on U.S. 80, across rural Lowndes County.
Category Archives: Selma & Civil Rights
Oh, No!! Lady Gaga Is NOT Coming to Selma!
Tragic News this morning: Lady Gaga can’t make it. Gee. Doggone. Well, since I’ve come as far as Montgomery, I might as well go on over. There must be SOMEbody coming who I’ve heard of . . . .
Jimmie Lee & James: Two Selma Landmarks
Jimmie Lee & James: Two Selma Landmarks Jimmie Lee Jackson (left) and James Bonard Fowler: They met fatefully on the night of February 18, 1965, fifty years ago today. The white community of Marion, Alabama, thirty miles northwest of
Selma, Me & Jimmie Lee Jackson
I’d been in jail for ten days earlier that month, and in that time the movement had been heating up. There were plans to extend its reach to the town of Marion, in the next county over from Selma, with a rally and a night march two days hence — March 18th.
That march would become a turning point in the Selma movement drama. More on that soon. Or you can get the details from my book, Selma 1965, right here.