Here, author James Baldwin (front row, l.) and Selma march strategist Bayard Rustin (front row, r.) smoke cigarettes while waiting to speak in Montgomery on March 25, 1965.

Karales accompanied the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others along a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to the capital city of Montgomery to demand voting rights. There were three such marches ...

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 ...

March 9, 1965 – Unitarian Universalist minister James Reeb, in Selma to join marchers, is attacked by a group of white men and beaten. He dies of his injuries two days later.

65 photographs by Spider Martin on view now through June 1, 2025, at the the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts reveal an intimate, first-hand perspective of the Selma to Montgomery March in its ...

On March 25, 1965, the historic Selma to Montgomery March concluded with 25,000 people listening to Martin Luther King in his “Not Long, How Long?” speech at the Alabama state Capitol. Two ...

Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. grew up when Jim Crow laws still reigned in Alabama, ... The original Voting Rights Act came about as a result of the Selma to Montgomery March after Bloody Sunday.