A pivotal moment unfolded in Selma, Alabama, beginning on March 7, 1965. Roughly 600 courageous demonstrators launched a march that caught the attention of the entire nation. Activists sought to ...

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.

Fifty years ago Saturday, a 52-mile march planned from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, faltered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The voting rights demonstrators encountered state troopers who attacked them ...

Sixty years ago, on March 7, Sheyann Webb-Christburg walked with 600 other activists in Selma, Alabama, to protest Black voter suppression. As they reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge, just six blocks ...

Coretta Scott King wrote in 1970 that “almost anyone who can read or look at a television screen knows what happened in Selma that sunny, bloody afternoon.” I don’t know if that was ever true. It’s ...

It was a mere 59 years ago that thousands stood up to oppression and marched from Selma for the right to vote in Alabama. Just getting started was a testament to their courage, a test of their ...

(March 7, 1965) -- SELMA, Ala. (AP) -- A hostile and angry crowd of white persons jeered other whites protesting alleged discrimination against Negroes on Saturday at about the same time Gov. George C ...

SIOUX CITY | Mike Hand is 21 and a student at St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa, when images of "Bloody Sunday" spur him to action. They move him 820 miles to be exact. From Davenport to Selma, ...

Tony Bennett is primarily known for his music and his art. What some may not know is that he was also involved in the civil rights movement. Bennett, who died Friday at age 96, joined a Detroit civil ...

*One week after Alabama state troopers bludgeoned civil rights demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma on March 7, 1965 a visibly shaken Lyndon Johnson called for and addressed a joint ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — People across the country are remembering civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Monday. Part of his legacy includes leading a march from Selma, Alabama to the state ...