Sixty years ago on March 7, 1965, a group of peaceful, unarmed activists — men, women and children — walked slowly and with purpose toward a mass of hatred. That day on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The cities of Selma and Montgomery will commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March, and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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 ...

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 ...

SELMA, AL. — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1965 for voting rights for ...

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 ...

In early 1965, civil rights leaders — in an effort to draw attention to Alabama’s success in preventing African Americans from registering to vote — attempted to march the 54 miles from Selma to the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March is approaching, and so is an immersive new way to experience the historical event in the 21st century. The City of ...

65 photographs by Spider Martin on view now through June 1, 2025, at the the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts reveal an intimate, first-hand perspective of the Selma to Montgomery March in its entirety.