Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, 600 marchers protesting for voting equality left the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma headed for the state capitol in Montgomery. Before they had even left town, ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Broad Street was already shut down at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, yet the traffic lights still switched from red to yellow to green on the road leading to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Barricades ...

Following the Bloody Sunday crackdown in Selma, Ala., Martin Luther King Jr. called for support across the U.S. People of different races and... 'A Proud Walk': 3 Voices On The March From Selma To ...

On March 25, 1965, the historic Selma to Montgomery March concluded with 25,000 people listening to Martin Luther King in his “Not Long, How Long?” speech at the Alabama state Capitol. Two weeks ...

SELMA, Ala. (WTVD) -- Fayetteville author Chuck Fager has returned to Selma to mark the 50th anniversary of a march that changed the face of the civil rights movement. Fager is one of the people who ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama ...

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 his first term as mayor of Selma, Joe Smitherman watched police beat civil rights demonstrators embarking on the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. On Tuesday, after 36 ...

In March, the country commemorated the 60th anniversary of the march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama. A few weeks later, I had the moving experience of walking across the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. SELMA, Ala. • Thousands of people crowded an Alabama bridge on Sunday, many jammed shoulder to shoulder, many unable to move, to ...

This is an opinion column. If you have images in your head of Bloody Sunday in Selma, or the Selma-to-Montgomery march that ended at the State Capitol on this day 60 years ago, there’s a good chance ...