Richard C. Boone was an African-American civil rights activist known for his involvement in the Selma march of 1965. In 1965, Boone led a group of 800 students to Montgomery, Alabama, to join Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and 25,000 civil rights marchers. Boone was born on July 7, 1937, in Calhoun, Alabama. He was the […]
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