CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody ...

In early 1965, civil rights leaders — in an effort to draw attention to Alabama’s success in preventing African Americans from registering to vote — attempted to march the 54 miles from Selma to the ...

A woman laid out in the street, unconscious. Troopers lined up, armed with batons. A telegram from Massachusetts reacting to the violence. As a twentysomething freelance journalist at the Birmingham ...

The 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the Selma March to Montgomery will be commemorated this weekend with events focused on the themes of education equity, Historically Black Colleges and ...

The likely GOP nominee is touring economically distressed parts of the country. SELMA, Ala., April 21, 2008— -- Far from the Democratic battlefield of Pennsylvania, Sen. John McCain, the ...

From left, state Reps. Justin Jones and Shaundelle Brooks of Nashville and Rep. Gabby Salinas of Memphis prepare to step off in the 60th anniversary commemoration of the 1965 Selma voting rights march ...

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 weeks ...

It's been 60 years since Bloody Sunday, when a peaceful civil rights march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama turned violent as police attacked demonstrators. Advocates in New York City ...

Selma, Alabama's historic Jackson home, where the 1965 Selma voting rights march was planned, has been moved to The Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. The house was cut in half and moved approximately 1 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The City of Montgomery is finishing up celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March. Celebrations ended at the Capitol steps Sunday with a ...