From Bloody Sunday to Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech, James "Spider" Martin was always a step ahead of the ...
It was 60 years ago that about 600 protesters preparing to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were brutally ...
"People are afraid," Selma's mayor told more than 30 Congress members at the start of a weekend of remembrance.
Sixty years ago on March 7, hundreds of footsoldiers in the Civil Rights Movement were violently beaten and gassed by Alabama ...
Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and advocate for voting rights. Speakers at the event emphasized the ongoing fight for voting rights and ...
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...
SELMA, AL – Sixty years have passed since a group of peaceful protesters were severely beaten after crossing the Edmund ...
Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and advocate for voting rights.
60 events to mark it The original Voting Rights Act came about as a result of the Selma to Montgomery March after Bloody Sunday. In 2013, the Supreme Court disbanded a portion of the law that ...
Edgar Moore, 74, pointed to where Alabama State Troopers met him and other Bloody Sunday marchers 60 years ago. Many of the troopers were on horseback. Others had police dogs. Moore said he ...