The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which ...

The 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March is approaching, and so is an immersive new way to experience the ...

Black History Month this year falls on the 60th anniversary of many crucial moments of the Civil Rights Movement that would ...

The film "Selma," directed by Ava DuVernay, focuses on the pivotal 1965 voting rights marches from ... account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a defining act of protest spearheaded by Dr. King.

Two weeks later, marchers under the protection of the National Guard and federal marshals began the trek from Selma to Montgomery. The march concluded in Montgomery on March 25. The national ...

This nonviolent protest led to the desegregation of ... he delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. The Selma to Montgomery marches (1965), which contributed to the Voting Rights Act of ...

Part of his legacy includes leading a march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery in March of 1965. Demonstrators were fighting racial voter discrimination. It’s been nearly 60 ...

the first Black mayor of Selma, Alabama, a city in the center of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1965, it was the start of the 55-mile march to Montgomery, where King led the protest. Perkins was a ...

Several months after his first Fisk apperance, The Tennessean ran a photo of King being released from a Montgomery ... Selma. On March 7, several hundred marchers attempted to peacefully protest ...

As a Catholic Sister of St. Joseph of Rochester and a registered nurse, Sr. Lum was “privileged and forever influenced” by her work at the Sisters of St. Joseph Good Samaritan Hospital in Selma from ...