SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Thousands gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to celebrate and memorialize Civil Rights leaders who marched in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. The Edmund ...

But that peace was shattered on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Alabama State Troopers. “They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was ...

SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Thousands gathered Sunday at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to hear lawmakers’ words of encouragement. Among these lawmakers were Congresswoman Terri Sewell and ...

Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago today when they were met by a wall of police. Protesters were tear gassed and beaten.

Rev. Bernard LaFayette (center, in wheelchair and cloth cap) holds his wife Kate’s hand as they are wheeled over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 9, 2025 as part of 60th ...

(AP Photo, File) FILE - Selma civil rights foot soldier Charles Mauldin introduces President Joe Biden to speak near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 5, 2023, during an event ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — 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 7, 1965. The marchers were ...

The foot soldiers are helped across the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary ... stick chased him all the way back to the public housing projects where his family lived.