People across the country are remembering civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Monday. Part of his legacy includes leading a march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery in March ...

The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which ...

This year, many of the conversations surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day have involved the new movie “Selma,” about the historic marches from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama in 1965.

On MLK Day, whispers of memories of my time in Selma, Alabama, return. They’re dream-like recollections, faint but never forgotten, blurry with sharp edges. At dawn six years ago, I walked ...

He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.

During Selma's 60th anniversary of the voting rights ... She and several other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day, taking it upon themselves to demonstrate for ...

In 1965, he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. King was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025 will be observed on ...

A Baltimore museum was sponsoring a "Dare to Dream Day," San Francisco was having a march and parade ... across America observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. MLK Jr. Day is a federal ...

Linda Lowery was just 14 years old in 1965 when she marched 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery ... Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day, taking it upon themselves ...