April 27: Dr. Shirley Jackson was appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2009
In 1965, Lewis and fellow activist Hosea Williams led what was planned as a peaceful 54-mile march through Alabama from Selma to Montgomery. The march, a protest of the discriminatory practices and Jim Crow laws that prevented African Americans from voting, would be remembered in history as “Bloody Sunday,” one of the most dramatic and violent incidents of the American Civil Rights Movement.
The helm of the ship: a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering