BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — With a few months left until the opening of the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing up in Montgomery, 17-year-old Ryley Tate Wilson said he's studied his city's role in the Civil Rights Movement — including ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A Women’s History Month event planned for Thursday will honor the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March. That march—that started with Bloody Sunday—led congress ...

Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We got to the highest point on this bridge," Lewis said in an interview with NPR, standing on the bridge ten years ago. "Down below we saw a sea of blue – Alabama state troopers." Then-Alabama Gov.

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union proposed to enlarge the American promise of prosperity by introducing a new tax structure for the very wealthy, tax credits for families outside of the ...