Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and advocate for voting rights. Speakers at the event emphasized the ongoing fight for voting rights and the ...
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 ...
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were protesting white officials ...
SELMA, Ala. — Presidential candidates and prominent social justice activists descended on Alabama on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the brutal attack on civil rights marchers here in 1965, ...
Brown Chapel A.M.E Church in Selma, Alabama, a pivotal location during the civil rights movement, is undergoing a $1 million renovation. The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, along with ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. SELMA, Ala. • Thousands of people crowded an Alabama bridge on Sunday, many jammed shoulder to shoulder, many unable to move, to ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near ...