At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while ...

As Selma prepares to commemorate the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday next week, the city is mourning one of its most ...

On March 7, 1965, John Lewis and the Rev. Hosea Williams led a nonviolent march with 600 men, women, and children from Selma, Alabama, toward the state capital in Montgomery. They were marching for ...

The exhibit highlights a key moment in the civil rights movement where heavily armed police cracked down on peaceful protestors. Its organizers say it bears a striking similarity to the present.

By the time Joanne Bland was 11 years old, she had been arrested “at least 13 documented times,” she once wrote. In Selma, ...

On March 7, 1965, young civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of peaceful marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...

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, ...

Selma, Alabama (CNN) – Crowds massed at a bridge in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to remember and reflect upon the sacrifices of another crowd that gathered at the same bridge half a century ago on a day ...

Salute Selma has announced two days of activities March 7-8 in Selma in honor of the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday and ...

The weather was peaceful 50 years ago today in Selma, Ala. - as peaceful as the crowd that had assembled to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on route to Montgomery. The civil rights movement was stopped ...