While marching on Bloody Sunday, Amelia Boynton Robinson ... According to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robinson has a lengthy track record of activism, including ...

A person takes a photo of the march over the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, Sunday, ...

March 25, 1965, marked a turning point in history. America's civil rights leaders completed their 54-mile march from Selma, ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers were attacked in Selma on March 7, 1965.

"Bloody Sunday changed my father, both as a man and human being, and it opened his eyes to the depth of the struggle for equal rights for African Americans in a profoundly urgent way," his daughter, ...

she said. Bloody Sunday refers to the day in 1965 when hundreds marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest for African American rights. Deborah Springer Sutler, an NAACP member ...

In early 1965, civil rights leaders — in an effort to draw attention to Alabama’s success in preventing African Americans ... came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.” Even after the Civil ...

Civil and communal leaders will join the historic Brown Chapel AME Church and the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund on March 9 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, ...

As the nation reflects on this pivotal event, the African American Cultural Heritage ... The 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday is not just about remembrance, it is a call to protect and preserve ...

As the nation reflects on this pivotal event, the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund (Action Fund), a program of the National Trust for Preservation, Brown Chapel AME Church ...