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 March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. As they ...

“Yes, I was [in the march] at 14. Dr. King had been to Selma numerous times ... “SNCC had already been here training and encouraging young people to get involved in a nonviolent movement and training ...

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

and the Selma-to-Montgomery march. As chair of SNCC he coordinated voter registration and community activities of Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Deeply involved in the planning of the 1963 March ...

Part of his legacy includes leading a march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery in March of 1965. Demonstrators were fighting racial voter discrimination. It’s been nearly 60 ...

The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail traces the route of the 1965 Voting Rights March, where civil rights protestors ... "Park Talks" to learn about our work and ways you can get involved.

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.

Sunday marked the 56th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr’s “Bloody Sunday” march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma for voting rights. About a hundred people honored his actions by ...