On, March 7, 1965, about 600 people began a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to ...

On March 7, 1965, a day that became known as “Bloody Sunday,” hundreds of activists led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to champion voting rights.

FEB. 28, 1965. Organizers go public with their plan to march from Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and down U.S. Highway 80 to Montgomery. Leaders call Alabama Gov. George Wallace to ask for ...

The inspiration of Selma 60 years ago led to a 45-year career with ACLU affiliates fighting for civil liberties and voting rights. Former Miami ACLU leader remembers the march on Selma | Miami Herald ...

A retired federal magistrate judge reflects on the 60th anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery—and the role that judges and lawyers played in the historic event.

The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches that culminated in the passing of the landmark Voting Rights Act, will be commemorated in March of 2025.

On the fifth day of the Alabama voter registration march, thousands of civil rights marchers are massed together to begin their three-mile walk on the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on March 25, 1965.

Mere weeks after the Edmund Pettus march, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was presented to Congress on March 17, 1965. President Johnson signed the bill into law on August 6, 1965. Since 1965, voting ...

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.

Selma, Alabama, occupies a unique place in U.S. history as the site of the pivotal civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965—an event forever remembered as “Bloody ...

Growing up in Montgomery, 17-year-old Ryley Tate Wilson said he's studied his city's role in the Civil Rights Movement — including a major piece of it that happened more than 40 years before he ...

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 ...