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 ...
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.
The commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday drew thousands to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Thousands gathered Sunday at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to hear lawmakers’ words ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.