Sixty years ago on March 7, hundreds of footsoldiers in the Civil Rights Movement were violently beaten and gassed by Alabama ...

From Bloody Sunday to Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech, James "Spider" Martin was always a step ahead of the ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the fight for voting ...

Students will learn about the 1965 marches from Selma to Montgomery during the Civil Rights Movement. They will examine the ...

On March 7, 1965, the Bloody Sunday marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams walked in pairs across the Selma bridge headed ... rights organizer who was shot by a state trooper in nearby ...

SELMA, Ala. — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March ... who was shot by a state ...

One demonstrator, Jimmie Lee Jackson -- who had entered a cafe with his mother to escape the violence -- was shot by police. He died a week later. The idea of a march from Selma came from the ...

Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and advocate for voting rights. Speakers at the event emphasized the ongoing fight for voting rights and ...

Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery.

Brown Chapel A.M.E Church in Selma will be seeing long-awaited renovations this year, with a tentative reopening date set for March 2026. The building was constructed and designed in 1908 by A.

Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote for black people. One of the ...