Selma: Sustaining the Civil Rights Momentum

“Selma: Sustaining the Momentum” was the title of a Dean Peerman and Martin E. Marty article in “The Christian Century” 48 years to the month after colleague Peerman and I joined several thousand protesters and prayers at the Edmund Pettis...

Selma’s ‘Turnaround March’ Was Turning Point

Of all of Martin Luther King Jr.’s activism experiences, one of the lesser known remains one of the more compelling. Many people associate King with Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965—even though he wasn’t in Selma when activists there...