On, March 7, 1965 ... by a state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration. On the outskirts of Selma, after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the marchers ...

The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences.

Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.

This Jubilee was a revival of spirit and purpose, not a retrospective, with the goal of encouraging people in the audience to ...

Ironically, Selma was thriving economically when it acquired global fame. The Civil Rights ... completed on March 24th, 1965, by thousands who covered 10 miles a day along Route 80 before ...

This is the second year Emory students have participated in the tour organized by the A. D. King Foundation, a non-profit ...

Montgomery, Alabama, the final site of a crucial march from Selma, is set to celebrate the 60th anniversary of an event that ...

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 ...

"We're here to remind people that there are human and civil rights that we are ... The event is known as "The Annual Pilgrimage to Selma," and features a festival of arts and music ahead of the March ...

Tara Campbell, GirlTREK's director of place-based innovation, said that walking, both at events like the march and weekly as ...

This Library of Congress photograph shows participants of the 1965 civil rights march following the Selma attacks: "We accept contributions for Selma victims, ” the sign reads. Peter Pettus ...

Hundreds gathered Sunday in Selma ... voting rights and were brutally beaten by police. As the group began marching the 50 miles (80 kilometers) to the southern state's capital on March 7 ...