The first attempt of protesters to march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 ... On the wall was a poster of Nikita Khrushchev that said 'A Vote for Lyndon Johnson is a Vote for Me,' " he said.

Highlights from Somerstein’s Selma body of work — including his famous photo from behind Martin Luther King Jr.’s head, which was reimagined for the “Selma” film poster — are on view ...

He went on to describe participants in the march — both the one in 1965 and a reenactment this Sunday — with a torrent of vulgarities. Selma today is a strange and complex place, difficult for ...

On Sunday, March 7, 1965, some 600 marchers set out from Selma, Alabama, bound for the State Capitol in Montgomery, protesting the shooting of young civil rights worker Jimmie Lee Jackson.

When his mother was 18, she was on her way to the 1965 Selma march. But her father ... Atlanta to cross the bridge Sunday. Clutching a poster on voters’ rights, Ponder said she wanted to ...

More than three thousand people joined Dr. Martin Luther King on a march escorted by U.S. Army troops from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, becoming one of the most iconic moments in Civil Rights history.

Credit: Alabama State Police 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 ...

About 100 people made those steps this week as they marched from Selma to Montgomery to commemorate the iconic 1965 march that ultimately led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Fifty years ago ...

On Sunday March ... the film poster and the message it delivers: we are all situated behind King who dominates picture. Ultimately why does it matter how the media, then and now, got Selma right ...

The 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march celebrates a series of peaceful protests carried out against often extreme violence that resulted in one of the most momentous pieces of civil ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. John Lewis said this year's 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march should reflect the dignity of the original event, which is why he arranged for ...

That was the spirit in Selma on Sunday afternoon. Even as the breeze stopped and water bottles emptied, the crowd stayed, waiting for hours to complete the commemorative march. At some points ...