Credit: Alabama State Police Organizers go public with their plan to march from Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and down U.S. Highway 80 to Montgomery. Leaders call Alabama Gov. George ...
‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future
On Sunday, March 9, 2025, a large group gathered in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 60th anniversary of a clash that became known ...
Sixty years ago, only minutes after hundreds of men and women stood on the sidewalk beyond the peak of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... blocking U.S. Highway 80 — the route to Montgomery ...
Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., between 3,000 and 8,000 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge out of Selma on their way to Montgomery.
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Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail - AlabamaAbout Selma to Montgomery NHT This march was a huge event in the civil rights movement which eventually leads to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 3,000 people assembled in Selma, Alabama ...
In 2015, President Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the march by delivering a speech at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. It is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Selma to ...
So-called for both the rich soil and the labor that worked it, the region begins on U.S. Highway 80 ... Selma’s Edmund G.
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