SELMA, Ala. (WIAT) — On March 7, 1965, hundreds of peaceful protestors marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. Many of them were beaten for it on what is now known as “Bloody Sunday.” 61 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on March 8, 1965, as American recovered from a busy weekend of news, including a race riot in ...

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 ...

Sixty-one years ago this month, Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. On March 7, 1965, the world looked on in horror as activists were bloodied ...

SELMA, Ala. — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about the ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gathering in the Alabama city this weekend, amid new concerns ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Officials with the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission said a delegation will travel outside the state to commemorate an important event. Officials said the delegation would ...

In 1965, Selma, AL, pierced the consciousness of the nation when civil rights marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They helped us see and propel the work we needed to do in this country to move ...

Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the ...

People march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 61st Bloody Sunday Anniversary, Sunday, March 8, 2026, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Sixty-one years after state troopers ...