Edgar Moore, 74, pointed to where Alabama State Troopers met him and other Bloody ... march from Selma to Montgomery to take place after Bloody Sunday. Voting is the way to make change, said Chris ...
Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.), the son of civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson, walk across Edmund ...
Journal Downtown Selma on March 6, 1965 was a typically busy Saturday, so shoppers didn’t pay much attention to a group of ...
ALABAMA - MARCH 01: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) arrives to speak to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment marking the 55th anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday on March 1 ...
It's been 60 years since Bloody Sunday, when a peaceful civil rights march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama turned violent as police attacked demonstrators. Advocates in New York ...
60 events to mark it The original Voting Rights Act came about as a result of the Selma to Montgomery March after Bloody Sunday. In 2013, the Supreme Court disbanded a portion of the law that ...
Thousands gathered in Selma ... eventually allowed the march from Selma to Montgomery to take place after Bloody Sunday. Voting is the way to make change, said Chris Rey, the president of Phi ...
A large group gathered in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Bloody Sunday was a 1965 voting rights march met with extreme violence. This year's ...
March 7, 1965. (AP Photo, File) In 1965, the Bloody Sunday marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams walked in pairs across the Selma bridge headed toward Montgomery. “We had steeled our ...