Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

including late Congressman John Lewis, gathered for a peaceful march for voting rights in Selma. But that peace was shattered on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Alabama State Troopers. “They came ...

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...

They crossed that bridge to face a phalanx of white state troopers. Major John Cloud told them to ... What is often lost in Selma was what Lewis and King both knew. People of color would never ...

In the moments before the start of the first Selma to Montgomery March ... stamped by the iconic images of Williams and Lewis being beaten by state troopers, would turn national attention to ...

FILE - An Alabama state trooper swings a club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma ...