The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is set to display "Selma is Now: Civil Rights Photographs" a series of photos taken by ...

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

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” Benjamin Franklin American polymath: a writer, ...

Twenty years later, blacks and whites commemorated the events of “Bloody Sunday” by reenacting the momentous protest in Selma (peacefully this time, of course). JTA reported that Rabbi Alvin ...

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

But in Selma during the early 60s, the racial divide fueled protests and clashes over civil rights that eventually reached a boiling point on March 7, 1965, the day that became known as Bloody Sunday.

On March 18, 1965, a federal district judge (Wallace's college friend, Frank Johnson) sanctioned a second protest march from Selma to Montgomery. Alabamians were indignant at yet another intrusion ...

The Black students were joined by white, mostly Jewish neighbors, the first interracial civil rights protest in the country.

Chicago, King said, provided vital help during the Selma protests earlier that year, and throughout the visit, he planned “to study the Chicago situation and interpret it.” By Monday ...