Fifty-one years ago this week, hundreds of people marched from Selma ... weeks later, Martin Luther King Jr. led a successful march across the bridge to the state capital with Heschel by his ...

She and several other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day ... marching across the bridge, being chased by a Selma deputy and Alabama state trooper.

Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, a key turning point in American history transpired in the heart of Alabama, when hundreds of peaceful demonstrators marching for Black voting rights were violently ...

In honor of all the sacrifices made on behalf of civil rights foot soldiers 60 years ago, the following 60 events are ...

The historic city of Selma, Alabama, is preparing to welcome thousands of visitors for the 60th anniversary commemoration of “Bloody Sunday” and the subsequent Selma-to-Montgomery ...

Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 60 years ... suffered a fractured skull. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis and others, the protestors ...

Bloody Sunday was a catalyst in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Sixty years later, some worry about the future of the ...

SELMA, ALABAMA - MARCH 01: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) arrives to speak to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment marking the 55th anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday on March 1 ...

Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery.