Thousands gathered in Selma on Sunday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. The 33rd annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee honored the civil rights foot soldiers who endured brutal attacks on ...
Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march, highlighting the ongoing struggle for civil rights and ...
The 1960 March on Montgomery in Selma, Alabama, was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Bradenton native Richard Smiley, who marched in the 1960 protest, describes the brutality he and his ...
Although many freedom fighters and faith leaders make the yearly March pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama in commemoration of the hundreds of civil rights activists injured by police on March 7, 1965 — a ...
How the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama in 1965 led to the creation of the Voting Rights Act, a pivotal ...
On Sunday, March 9, civil rights leaders gathered at the City Hall steps to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing in Selma ... to be known as Bloody Sunday.
Sixty years have passed since the brutal events of Bloody Sunday ... meaning of Bloody Sunday. They, and others like them, remind us that the fight for justice is far from over. The need for mass ...