Organized by Alabama native John Lewis, the plan was for demonstrators to peacefully march the 50-mile stretch from Selma to ...

From Bloody Sunday to Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech, James "Spider" Martin was always a step ahead of the ...

One demonstrator, Jimmie Lee Jackson -- who had entered a cafe with his mother to escape the violence -- was shot by police. He died a week later. The idea of a march from Selma came from the ...

On March 7, 1965, the Bloody Sunday marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams walked in pairs across the Selma bridge headed ... rights organizer who was shot by a state trooper in nearby ...

Students will learn about the 1965 marches from Selma to Montgomery during the Civil Rights Movement. They will examine the ...

SELMA, Ala. — 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 ... who was shot by a state ...

Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote for black people. One of the ...

It is the 60th anniversary of Selma. A march across the town’s chunky metal bridge will take place tomorrow to mark the events of Alabama’s Bloody Sunday. The remaining participants in the ...