John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr.

African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, centre) at the third march from Selma to ...

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, which has an upcoming exhibit on the Selma march, placed the billboard ad.

At dawn six years ago, I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. The sun tried to peek over a cloudy horizon, and cotton blooms swayed in the light breeze like sea oats near the sea.

I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, made famous when Martin Luther King Jr. marched across it in 1965 to advance civil rights in our country. However, ...

They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...

WATCH: Harris marks 59th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Vice President Kamala Harris is among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day ...

He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was ...

I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, made famous when Martin Luther King Jr. marched across it in 1965 to advance civil rights in our country. However, I recalled the ...