On, March 7, 1965, about 600 people began a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate ...

March 7th has seen its fair share of pivotal moments throughout history.One of the most notable events on this day occurred ...

Journal Downtown Selma on March 6, 1965 was a typically busy Saturday, so shoppers didn’t pay much attention to a group of ...

65 photographs by Spider Martin on view now through June 1, 2025, at the the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts reveal an intimate, first-hand perspective of the Selma to Montgomery March in its entirety.

Their first attempt on March 7 ... Credit: Alabama State Police Organizers go public with their plan to march from Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and down U.S. Highway 80 to Montgomery.

The first march will take place at 9 a.m. Sunday on the Mario Cuomo Bridge, and the second will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday on the Brooklyn Bridge. What happened in Selma, Alabama on March 7 ...

In 1965, activists started a march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the right to vote. However, as they were crossing ...

Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...

It was McLeod's first time at the Jubilee ... to get the federal court order that eventually allowed the march from Selma to Montgomery to take place after Bloody Sunday. Voting is the way ...

Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...