Under contemporary legal doctrine, the Selma protests would have ended March 8, 1965. The shift happened over time. In 1966, for example, ...

Just like in Selma, massive protests in Ferguson last year sparked a national movement that made clear and reasonable demands. Thousands called for comprehensive legislation, ...

At 9 years old, Sheyann Webb-Christburg became Selma's "smallest freedom fighter" when she marched from Selma to Montgomery for Black voting rights.

Good Trouble Lives On' events have been planned across the U.S., including Georgia, on July 17 in retaliation of President ...

It’s not 1965. That is the implicit message of the new movie “Selma,” a stirring depiction of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting-rights march told from the perspective of Martin Luther King Jr.

The 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march celebrates a series of peaceful protests carried out against often extreme violence that resulted in one of the most momentous pieces of civil ...

Protest links Selma police killing of man a year ago to Ferguson, New York cases. Protesters want video of incident to be made public. Officer, victim were black; police chief says cases shouldn't ...

Push for Voting Rights Sparked Selma Protests. Before the march, civil rights groups had been pushing for equal voting rights in the city since 1963.

A peaceful march in protest of racial injustice set out from Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, but was met with violent resistance from local law enforcement in an event that became known as "Bloody ...

Much of his archive from those monumental Selma protests have been newly restored and is now on display at The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, in time for the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

Edward Shaw walked into the Selma, Alabama, Police Department to see official video footage of a police shooting that took place more than a year ago.