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There she is — in a black-and-white photo taken on March 7, 1965, "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama — her arms crossed, her hands joined with other nuns in the front line of marchers, singing ...
She was one of six St. Louis nuns who flew to Selma in a show of support after voting rights marchers were brutally attacked by Alabama State Troopers on March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday. Three days ...
Published March 11 1965 -- Sister Mary Antona (Ebo), right, of St. Louis talks with reporters at Lambert-St. Louis Airport after returning from the 1965 Selma civil rights march.
Nuns march in protest for civil rights in Selma, Ala., in March 1965. Sister Mary Antona Ebo of St. Louis is the 2nd nun from left. Post-Dispatch file photo ...
On March 17, 1965, Federal Judge Frank Johnson ruled that the march to Montgomery could proceed. Four days later, some 3,000 marchers departed from Selma, this time crossing the Edmund Pettus ...
WASHINGTON — This Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be the first without Sister Mary Antona Ebo, the only black Catholic nun who marched with civil-rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in ...
Sr. Antona Ebo delivers a statement after police halted a march to the country courthouse in Selma March 10, 1965, (AP Images ... "This is the first time in my life I am seeing a Negro nun.
A nun, identified as Sister Robert Joseph (Margaret Lawler), rests in the shadows of military police, March 29, 1965, during the Selma to Montgomery march, March 29, 1965.
It was a glorious moment in American history. On March 7, 2015, forty thousand Americans gathered in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On that day in 1965 ...
(CNN)-- The Rev. Maurice Ouellet remembers the day vividly: March 7, 1965. As he walked out of church after serving Sunday Mass, he encountered silence. Then sirens. "Everything was dead, still ...