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 was in this very home where leaders planned the final, successful Selma to Montgomery march, which began on March 21 and concluded on March 25 with thousands of courageous marchers.

Today was a day of sustained momentum which is building up to legislation and more freedom; it was a day of witness. That was all King asked for and that was what he and his co-workers got. A version ...

It was in this very home where leaders planned the final, successful Selma to Montgomery march, which began on March 21 and concluded on March 25 with thousands of courageous marchers. By August ...

Participants marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 (US Library of Congress / Photo by Peter Pettus) The plan we were pondering—as students at Ripon College in ...

Obama rallied a new generation of Americans to the spirit. March 08, 2015 Obama in Selma: ‘Our march is not over’ Follow Saudigazette on ...

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 ...

After an aborted second attempt, thousands had started out from Selma on March 21. On March 25, Central New York was there with about 50 or more Syracusans! Alethea Connolly’s magnificent and ...

Other lawmakers and elected officials marching in Selma included state Reps. Harold Love, Shaundelle Brooks, Justin Jones, all Nashville Democrats, and Rep. Gabby Salinas, a Memphis Democrat.

Obama spoke immediately after Rep. John Lewis, a leader of the Selma march who was brought down by police truncheons - his skull fractured - that day in 1965.

The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis are participants in the NAACP’s Journey for Justice, an 860-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to ...