The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail in Alabama memorializes the route taken by marchers during the Voting Ri ...
On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. As they ...
Jr. Day have involved the new movie “Selma,” about the historic marches from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama in 1965. Viewers may wish to supplement the film with JTA’s coverage at the time ...
Zoom out: The Alabama law is one of many passed in GOP-controlled states that seek to limit discussions around race, ...
The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches that culminated in the passing of the landmark Voting Rights Act, will be commemorated in March of 2025. As in ...
It ended in 1956. The Selma to Montgomery March took place in 1965 in Alabama. In March, protesters walked the 54-mile route in an effort to register Black voters in the South. However ...
Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed on Thursday asked for the removal of a billboard ad that showed a historical photo of state troopers confronting civil rights marchers in Selma on the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...
Cambridge resident Roy Davis remembers approaching Edmund Pettus Bridge for the first time during the march from Selma to ...
Linda Lowery was just 14 years old in 1965 when she marched 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama ... “Yes, I was [in ...
The work, designed by the art collective For Freedoms, depicts a photograph from Selma’s Bloody Sunday in 1965 overlaid with Trump’s campaign slogan.