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 ...

Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman John ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — 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 ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to be among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day Alabama law officers attacked Civil Rights demonstrators on the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris told thousands gathered for the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, that fundamental freedoms are under attack in ...

Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, 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, 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 ...