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

SELMA, Ala. (WIAT) — On March 7,1965, peaceful demonstrators known as “Foot Soldiers” attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge for voting rights in Selma. In their attempt ...

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

At dawn six years ago, I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... our team takes a pilgrimage to Selma to commemorate the Bloody Sunday march led by courageous, non-violent foot ...

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

Speaking in Selma, Alabama, on the 59th anniversary ... told a crowd of hundreds gathered near the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where baton-wielding state troopers confronted marchers ...

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

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.

The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights ... many local activities will take place including the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Unlike years past though ...

which was passed in the wake of the police attacks in Selma, Garland said. The demonstrators were beaten by officers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, as they tried to march across ...