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

America’s climactic battle for civil rights took place in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago ... students peacefully protested racial segregation, but police attacked them with firehoses and dogs ...

It's been 60 years since the historic Civil Rights March in Selma, Alabama. Protesters demanded ... sought to highlight six decades ago - segregation, poverty and gun violence.

It is the 60th anniversary of Selma. A march across the town’s chunky metal bridge will take place tomorrow to mark the events of Alabama’s Bloody Sunday. The remaining participants in the ...

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 white ...

SELMA, 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 ...

“What took place on that bridge literally changed the face of American politics,” says Alabama Democrat Terri Sewell, who grew up in Selma and ... whole problem of segregation and ...