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 ...

The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences in civil rights history. The historic Selma to Montgomery, Alabama marches for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SELMA, Ala. — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were protesting ...

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.

Having traveled to Atlanta by plane, many of the civil rights demonstrators who converged on Selma today rode by bus or rented car past the state capitol in Montgomery before reaching their ...

America’s racial progress since the “Bloody Sunday” march is undeniable, President Barack Obama said to mark Saturday’s 50th anniversary, and so is the struggle that remains. “Our march is not yet ...