by Cliff Vaughn | Mar 21, 2002 | Opinion
One car carried Viola Liuzzo and Leroy Moton. The other carried four Klansmen. The latter pulled alongside the former on a lonely stretch of U.S. Highway 80 between Selma and Montgomery. The Klansmen fired into Liuzzo’s car, killing her instantly. Moton survived...
by Carol Ann Vaughn | Mar 4, 2002 | Opinion
“It won’t make a difference.” “You can’t change the system.” “That’s just the way things are.” Have you ever heard these words? Have you ever uttered these words? Have you ever heard these words? Have you ever...
by Doug Weaver | Feb 27, 2002 | Opinion
Southern Baptists split from Northern Baptists in 1845 when they realized that slaveholders were not going to be allowed to be missionaries. For most of Southern Baptist history, one part of the denomination’s identity was crystal clear: to be Baptist was to be...
by Mel Hawkins | Jan 14, 2002 | Opinion
To tell the story of the American Civil Rights Movement is to tell, largely, an African-American story. The movement originated in the African-American community, the leadership of the movement was overwhelmingly African-American and most of the foot-soldiers were...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jan 14, 2002 | Opinion
On Jan. 2, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led a “mass meeting” at Brown Chapel in Selma, Ala. This meeting kicked off the involvement of King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Selma’s voting rights campaign. King had already...
