Deandra Marquis Lee was captured around 11 a.m. in Selma, the Alabama Bureau of Investigation announced.
Another site of note is Selma's National Voting Rights Museum, which opened in 1993.
When Liuzzo decided to go to Selma, she did it in typically impulsive fashion.
The journalists who had assembled for the Selma march weren't much better, Truskoff says.
It was in the Baptist churches of Montgomery and Selma that the civil rights movement was born.
People in Selma had been cool at first to the unelected sheriff, but his force was useful.
Hamer's stand inspired Dr. King's march in Selma, which brought about the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Now, tourists visit the site in Selma and walk along the route the black activists took that day.
Liuzzo dropped off her passengers in Selma and returned with Moton to Montgomery to pick up more marchers.
As the marchers left Selma, police clubbed and whipped the leaders and drenched the procession with tear gas.
His reporting eventually took him to Selma, in the heat of summer, to report on the civil rights movement.
Another photo in the Selma Room shows Foster on the ground after being attacked by state troopers that day.
While her classmates wrote about Selma and sit-ins, she wrote about her mother's struggle to keep her maiden name.
African Americans and Jewish Americans marched together at Selma and Montgomery, with rabbis carrying the Torah as they walked.
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McCain has written about Lewis in the past, praising his actions in Selma, Alabama, during the civil rights movement.
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What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and state of America.
But he was the first Republican candidate to visit the site of the famous civil rights march in Selma, Alabama.
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He could only hope the Selma march changed more minds than were in the rows of us walking behind him.
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To publicise their denial in the South, Martin Luther King led a 50-mile march through Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.
Martin Luther King, Mr Gotlieb's biggest catch, was nabbed in 1964, before the Selma march had propelled him to international fame.
Alabama recently received a federal grant to turn the 50-mile trail along U.S. 80 from Selma to Montgomery into a formal attraction.
This week, he has stumped and tried to raise money at town hall-style events and speeches in such places as Selma, Ala.
The condemnation of Reeb's murder in Selma had been instantaneous and widespread.
Like the Rosa Parks case, the Selma march decision was a milestone.
Later that night, three white ministers who had traveled to Selma to participate in the protest were beaten with clubs by unknown white assailants.
The firestorms that were lit in Birmingham, Oxford, Memphis, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Little Rock and Selma were a call to arms to which the people responded.
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SELMA, Alabama (CNN) -- In 1965, Alabama state troopers and local deputies stopped and clubbed black activists as they marched peacefully from Selma to Montgomery.
She was murdered while giving a ride to a 19-year-old black man, Leroy Moton, one of many civil rights marchers she had driven around Selma.
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