The 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., became known as Bloody Sunday because it ended in state troopers beating nonviolent protesters as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty years ago on March 7, 1965, a group of peaceful, unarmed activists — men, women and children — walked slowly and with ...
The late Georgia Congressman John Lewis was one of the leaders of what was supposed to be a march from Selma to Montgomery, motivated by the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a Black man shot by a state ...
This past weekend, thousands gathered in Alabama for the annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee Celebration, retracing the famous steps across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where civil rights marchers once ...
Sixty years ago on March 7, 1965, a group of peaceful, unarmed activists — men, women and children — walked slowly and with ...
Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery. The ...