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 ...

A 170-year-old hotel in downtown Selma, Alabama, was set for demolition before preservationists realized the value of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 2 p.m. an anxious 25-year-old Larry Stumme boarded a train in Chicago. He was joined by his brother and 30 of his fellow classmates. They were headed to Montgomery, Ala. “We wanted to go,” Stumme, ...

*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 ...

The likely GOP nominee is touring economically distressed parts of the country. SELMA, Ala., April 21, 2008— -- Far from the Democratic battlefield of Pennsylvania, Sen. John McCain, the ...