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 ...

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.

March 7 marks 58 years to the date of “Bloody Sunday,” a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Typically, we hear about civil rights icon and future congressman John Lewis and how he led ...

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 ...

Photographer Stephen Somerstein was a 24-year-old college newspaper editor at City College of New York when he heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to join the 1965 Civil Rights march from Selma to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody ...

The plan we were pondering — as students at Ripon College 60 years ago this spring — seemed crazy at first. But it was the 1960s, and we were young and brimming with the idealism of the age. So, we ...

A woman laid out in the street, unconscious. Troopers lined up, armed with batons. A telegram from Massachusetts reacting to the violence. As a twentysomething freelance journalist at the Birmingham ...