The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which ...
sanctioned a second protest march from Selma to Montgomery. Alabamians were indignant at yet another intrusion of the federal government into "local affairs." Wallace refused to spend any state ...
The 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March is approaching, and so is an immersive new way to experience the ...
Black History Month this year falls on the 60th anniversary of many crucial moments of the Civil Rights Movement that would ...
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who famously walked with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the front of the march to Montgomery ... by reenacting the momentous protest in Selma (peacefully this time ...
The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches ... and other activists led a series of protest marches in Alabama. During the weeks in which the marches occurred ...
"We deeply respect the legacy of the Selma to Montgomery March, the impact of Bloody Sunday, and the work of photographers like Spider Martin in capturing that history. The City remains committed ...
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is set to display "Selma is Now: Civil Rights Photographs" a series of photos taken by ...
Two weeks later, marchers under the protection of the National Guard and federal marshals began the trek from Selma to Montgomery. The march concluded in Montgomery on March 25. The national ...
2025 CAMBRIDGE — Cambridge resident Roy Davis remembers approaching Edmund Pettus Bridge for the first time during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. He was 14 years old.