TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - A civil rights lawyer who once fought to desegregate the University of Alabama is now receiving an honorary degree from the school. Attorney Fred Gray of Tuskegee will be awarded an honorary doctor of law degree…
By AARON MORRISON Associated Press During a commemoration of the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery Elliott Smith's great-aunt pushed him across the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in a stroller. Decades later, just before her passing, Smith switched…
Did you know people from around the country come to Alabama to learn all about the civil rights movement through the statewide Civil Rights Trail? Alabama Tourism Department Director Lee Sentell discussed the…
