MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 6, 1965 (UPI) --Gov. George C. Wallace announced Saturday he would not let Negroes march from Selma to Montgomery Sunday, but integration leaders said that if state police ...

On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. As they ...

The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail traces the route of the 1965 Voting Rights March, where civil rights protestors were attacked by police, raising support for the Voting Rights Act of ...

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Do yourself a favor sometime. Go to Alabama. Visit the Rosa Parks Museum and the civil rights museum in Montgomery. Go to Selma and walk the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Be a part of history. You’ll ...

Against the backdrop of a series of ongoing controversies and embarrassing missteps concerning civil rights and race ... for justice who joined Martin Luther King on the march from Selma to Montgomery ...

Johnson slipped the title phrase into a speech to Congress in March of 1965 in the wake of violent attacks on civil rights demonstrators during the march from Selma to Montgomery. Two years prior ...

On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. As they ...