By InsideEC staff For the third time, UW-Eau Claire  journalism students are accompanying the Civil Rights Pilgrimage. The Pilgrimage, celebrating its 10th trip south, is taking 90 total students through Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee to visit  historical sites of the Civil Rights Movement. The nine journalism students will write a blog entry for [...]

By Emily Gresbrink When University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire journalism students Amanda Tyler and Breann Schossow sat in pews interviewing a member of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Ala., a man came up behind them and sat down. He slowly began to talk about his experiences during the Civil Rights era and told them how in [...]

Standing on a patch of concrete in the George Washington Carver housing projects in Selma, Ala., civil rights foot soldier Joanne Bland held a pebble in her palm. The pebble, a crumbling piece of the historic ground she stood on, signified the meeting place of nearly 600 men, women, and children before they began their [...]

Though slavery in the United States was officially ended by the Thirteenth Amendment in December of 1865, scholars and researchers around the world continue to try to understand the experience.  University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Students on the 2012 Civil Rights Pilgrimage got a small glimpse of what slavery was like Tuesday morning in Selma, Ala. [...]

By Carolyn Tiry The people who participated in the winter 2012 Civil Rights Pilgrimage met many foot soldiers of the civil rights movement, people who were there during the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott and the voting rights marches in Selma, Ala., and the attack on the “freedom rides” in Anniston, Ala. Though they may have [...]

By Amanda Tyler Selma, Ala., in 1965 was a place of segregation and inequality, much like many communities in the South. What made Selma different, however, was its citizens. The people of Selma refused to take no for an answer, especially when it came to securing equal voting rights for all citizens regardless of race. [...]

By Rachel Perry and Haley Zblewski In Selma, Ala., live many of the foot soldiers who were involved in the civil rights movement and the push to pass the 1964 Voting Rights Act. To help their stories live on, they gathered in the Tabernacle Baptist Church to tell their stories to the University of Wisconsin–Eau [...]