Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago today when they were met by a wall of police. Protesters were tear gassed and beaten.
SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Thousands gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to celebrate and memorialize Civil Rights ...
Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery.
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — 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 ...
Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for enfranchisement for Black Americans. Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, ...
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 ...
March 7, 1965, civil rights activist John Lewis, along with over 600 people, set out to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to Montgomery, peacefully protesting the right to vote.
The foot soldiers are helped across the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote ...