1 Cover with lightly salted water and bring to a boil. 2  Reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour, or until meat is tender but not quite falling off the bone. 3  Remove from heat, and drain. 4  While the ribs are simmering, melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. 5  Cook the onion and garlic until the onion softens. Pour into the saucepan, and season with salt and pepper. 2  Bring to a boil then remove from heat. 3  Place the cooked ribs in a roasting pan and mix with the sauce. 4  Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, up to overnight. 5  Preheat barbecue for medium-high heat. 6  Brush the grill hotplate with oil.
In early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and SCLC decided to make Selma, located in Dallas County, Alabama, the focus of a voter registration campaign.
Alabama Police confront the Selma Marchers. Federal Bureau of Investigation Photograph. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks--and three events--that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma.