Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmie Lee Jackson, and the Defining Struggle of the Civil Rights Era
by
Craig Swanson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Troopers, advance! Those two words, shouted by a police commander in Selma, Alabama, some 50 years ago, changed the course of U.S. history. The date was March 7, 1965. The scene was the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And the resulting violence spurred an appalled nation into action. The Selma Campaign chronicles...