The population of the small historic town of Selma, Alabama swells once a year as people from around the nation flock to its ...

Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...

The center is located on a bluff above the Alabama River, the channel where enslaved Africans were shipped to Selma. From an ...

The world saw that. Alabama lawmen, strongarms of the state, swung batons. Lewis fell, his head cracked open by a club.

Civil rights leaders gather in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and call for continued ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

Civil rights advocates fear that current ideological divisions and erosion of voting rights will have a dangerous impact on ...

Image 1 of 2 (Original Caption) 3/7/1965-Selma, AL- Long line of Negro marchers, led by SNCC representative John Lewis (R) and Rev. Hosea Williams, leaves bridge across Alabama River past Alabama ...

Bloody Sunday' 60th Anniversary Marked in Selma With Remembrances and Concerns ... At the apex of the span over the Alabama River, they saw what awaited them: a line of state troopers, deputies ...

SELMA, Ala. — Charles Mauldin was near the ... At the apex of the span over the Alabama River, they saw what awaited them: a line of state troopers, deputies and men on horseback.