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 entered ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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 ...

One of three centers dedicated to the Selma-to-Montgomery march is getting a renovation for $20.7 million. The National Park Service is combining two properties to expand the Selma Interpretive Center ...

Those were the first words Lynda Blackmon Lowery says she heard from the mouth of Martin Luther King Jr. “And those three words changed my life,” said Lowery, who at 15 was the youngest person to join ...

SELMA, Ala. (Reuters) - Lynda Lowery still bears a scar above her right eye from the beating she took from a policeman's club 50 years ago on "Bloody Sunday," when roughly 600 peaceful civil rights ...