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

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

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.

Black History Month this year falls on the 60th anniversary of many crucial moments of the Civil Rights Movement that would ...

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

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 ...

"Freedom is fundamental to the promise of America," Harris told a crowd of hundreds gathered near the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge ... has attended the Selma march every year since she ...

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

“Yes, I was [in the march] at 14 ... being chased by a Selma deputy and Alabama state trooper. On the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Lowery recalled, she ran into a crowd of tear gas and a man behind ...

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 ...