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. Leaders call Alabama Gov. George ...

Sixty years ago, only minutes after hundreds of men and women stood on the sidewalk beyond the peak of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... blocking U.S. Highway 80 — the route to Montgomery ...

On Sunday, March 9, 2025, a large group gathered in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 60th anniversary of a clash that became known ...

So-called for both the rich soil and the labor that worked it, the region begins on U.S. Highway 80 ... Selma’s Edmund G.

In 2015, President Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the march by delivering a speech at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. It is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Selma to ...