Haywood was one of dozens of Tennesseans — including current and former elected officials — attending the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee to commemorate the 1965 march over the Edmund Pettus ...

This Library of Congress photograph shows participants of the 1965 civil rights march following the Selma attacks: "We accept contributions for Selma victims, ” the sign reads. Peter Pettus ...

On March 7, 1965, the Bloody Sunday marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams walked in pairs across the Selma bridge headed toward Montgomery. Charles Mauldin was near the front of the line ...

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 ...

Nearly two decades after his death, the image of civil rights activist and University graduate Roy ... march protesting the failure of the U.S. attorney general to include lynching on the agenda of a ...

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 ...

SELMA, ALABAMA - MARCH 01: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) arrives to speak to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment marking the 55th anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday on March 1 ...

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 entirety.

Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery.