March 7, 1965. George Wallace swore to stop it. That Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge near Selma, the marchers encountered a cordon of state troopers backed by Sheriff Jim Clark and a group of ...

(WSFA) - The annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee is happening in Selma this week. The event was created to commemorate ‘Bloody Sunday,’ the Selma to Montgomery March, and the signing of the Voting ...

Their goal was to march from Selma to the state capital – Montgomery. After only a few miles, the group was met by troopers on the Edmund Pettis Bridge and pushed and beaten back to Selma.

members of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice participate in the Bridge Crossing Jubilee. “Each year, our team takes a pilgrimage to Selma to commemorate the Bloody Sunday march led by ...

They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...

Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed announced the removal of two billboards with the words "Make America Great Again" displayed over ...

Sunday marked the 56th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr’s “Bloody Sunday” march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma for voting rights. About a hundred people honored his actions by ...

Cambridge resident Roy Davis remembers approaching Edmund Pettus Bridge for the first time during the march from Selma to ...

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, which has an upcoming exhibit on the Selma march, placed the billboard ad.

“Yes, I was [in the march] at 14. Dr. King had been to ... Lowery remembers when she was 14, marching across the bridge, being chased by a Selma deputy and Alabama state trooper.