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" He traveled to Selma, Alabama, where SNCC had organized a voter registration drive ; he watched mothers with babies and elderly men and women standing in long lines for hours, as armed deputies and state troopers stood by — or intervened to smash a reporter's camera or use cattle prods on SNCC workers.
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In 1965 he traveled from Brooklyn, New York to participate in the African-American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama.
Seven BVMs and " a busload " of students traveled to Alabama to participate in the Selma March for Civil Rights.
In the following year, ETS students and faculty traveled to Alabama to take part in the Selma to Montgomery marches.
Berry Park in Selma, California is named for Berry, who was a struggling fruit farmer in that San Joaquin Valley town before he traveled to the Klondike.
traveled and Alabama
In 1978, Peck traveled to Alabama, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird to campaign for Democratic U. S. Senate nominee Donald W. Stewart of Anniston, who defeated the Republican candidate, James D. Martin, a former U. S. representative from Gadsden.
While Hood traveled through Alabama and into Tennessee, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman began his March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah, which focused Beauregard's attention back to Georgia.
In May 1961 she traveled to Montgomery, Alabama while working on an article about Southern attitudes for Esquire.
The band traveled throughout central and southern Alabama performing in clubs and at private parties.
In June 1907, he traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, to attend a meeting of M. M. Pinson and Gaston B. Cashwell.
She did not accompany him when he traveled to Montgomery, Alabama ( then capital of the new nation ) to be inaugurated.
The routing from Meridian, Mississippi to Cuba, Alabama originally ran along its current route but for some 30 years it traveled along Interstate 20 and Interstate 59.
( Billie Joe ) McKay, a professional freelance itinerant trucker who traveled the country's highways in a red and white Kenworth K-100 cab over semi truck with his pet chimpanzee, Bear ( named after Bear Bryant, the famed football coach for Alabama, explaining the chimp's choice of headwear ).
U. S. 331 south travelers had to stop and turn right in order to continue southbound on U. S. 331 while the road straight ahead became Alabama State Route 141 south and traveled southeastward to the city of Elba.
In May, Daniels traveled back to school to take his semester exams, and having passed, he came back to Alabama in July to continue his work.
Negotiations between the Alabama Department of Transportation and the City of Hoover are continuing regarding the prospective building of an additional interchange between I-459 and South Shades Crest Road-a heavily traveled traffic artery.
Starting in Nashville, Tennessee, Streight and his men first traveled to Eastport, Mississippi, and then eastward to Tuscumbia, Alabama.
He was born in Alabama and traveled abroad to lecture and study and visited Britain a good deal.
The Ballou SHS band has traveled to California and Alabama and placed in the top three in both national competitions.
In 1979, Orndorff traveled to the Alabama territory's “ Southeast Championship Wrestling.
Taken into U. S. military custody after Geronimo ’ s final surrender, Lozen traveled as a prisoner of war to Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama.
He traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, at the time the Confederacy's capital, to join the Confederate States Army.
Rosser traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, to enlist in the Confederate States Army.
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In 1924 Trevelyan traveled to the United States, where he delivered the Lowell lectures at Harvard University.
While in Asia, Aristotle traveled with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos, where together they researched the botany and zoology of the island.
In mid-November 2000, the 9 / 11 Commission believes that Nami, Wail and Waleed al-Shehri, all of whom had obtained their U. S. visas in late October, traveled in a group from Saudi Arabia to Beirut and then onward to Iran where they could travel through to Afghanistan without getting their passports stamped.
Some time late in 2000, Haznawi traveled to the United Arab Emirates, where he purchased traveler's cheques presumed to have been paid for by Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
The SSRC awarded Whorf the grant and in 1930 he traveled to Mexico City where Professor Robert H Barlow put him in contact with several speakers of Nahuatl to serve as his informants, among whom were Mariano Rojas of Tepoztlán and Luz Jimenez of Milpa Alta.
After leaving Ireland, she traveled to Liverpool, where she met musicians Julian Cope and Ian McCulloch.
Between 1883 and 1908, Monet traveled to the Mediterranean, where he painted landmarks, landscapes, and seascapes, such as Bordighera.
After overcoming considerable difficulty and achieving notable success, Boylston traveled to London in 1724 where he published his results and was elected to the Royal Society in 1726.
" They traveled in March from Cincinnati up the Great Miami River by pirogue and landed at what is now St. Clair Street, where they found two small camps of Native Americans.
Violin in tow, Elfman next journeyed to Africa where he traveled through Ghana, Mali, and Upper Volta, absorbing new musical styles, including the Ghanaian highlife genre which would eventually influence his own music.
From 1717, he traveled to Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Dresden, Copenhagen, and also to his hometown, where his brother still lived.
Allen and a troop of Boys traveled to Westminster where, under Allen's influence, the town's convention adopted a strongly worded resolution authorizing the drafting of a plea to the King to remove them " out of so oppressive a jurisdiction ".
There have been several times where a ball has been recorded to have traveled at a speed of approximately 200 km / h.
In July 1775, Mesmer traveled to the shores of Lake Constance, his homeland, where he performed several sensational cures closely following in Gassner's footsteps.
He traveled extensively, exposing himself to a wide variety of medical theories and discoveries before settling in Rome, where he served prominent members of Roman society and eventually was given the position of personal physician to several emperors.
In 1906, Seymour traveled to Los Angeles where his preaching ignited the Azusa Street Revival.
Returning to East Asia, he took a ship from Singapore to Saigon in French Indo-China, from where he traveled to Phnom Penh, visiting the Silver Pagoda.
He did not undertake further missions for Florence until 1365, and traveled to Naples and then on to Padua and Venice, where he met up with Petrarch in grand style at Palazzo Molina, Petrarch's residence as well as the place of Petrarch's library.
The background of this revolt lay in the Napoleonic Wars, when a number of well-educated Russian officers traveled in Europe in the course of the military campaigns, where their exposure to the liberalism of Western Europe encouraged them to seek change on their return to autocratic Russia.
In 1611, John Sigismund traveled from Köningsberg to Warsaw, where on 16 November 1611 he gave feudal homage to Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland ( the Duchy of Prussia was a Polish fief at the time ).
Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.
But when longitude at sea is lost, it cannot be found again by any watch .” However, if such a clock were built and set at noon in London at the start of a voyage, it would subsequently always tell you how far from noon it was in London at that second, regardless of where you had traveled.
In early 1999, he traveled to Afghanistan where, as an experienced and respected jihadist, he was selected by Osama bin Laden to participate in the attacks.
On January 5, 2000, Mihdhar traveled to Kuala Lumpur, where he joined Hazmi, Attash and Yemeni, who were all arriving from Pakistan.
The next day, Mihdhar, Moqed and Hanjour traveled to Maryland, where they stayed at budget motels in Laurel.
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