Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. It ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago — March 7, 1965 — the nation’s attention was fixed on Selma, Ala., as the Civil Rights Movement brought its voting rights campaign to the seat of Dallas County, deep in the South’s ...

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, ...

SEABROOK ISLAND — Six decades ago, a protest march attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., became a flashpoint in the Civil Rights Movement. Bloody Sunday, as the event became ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights. The author, inspired by the civil rights movement, volunteered in ...

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 ...