Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea ...

As the marchers left Selma’s Brown Chapel AME Church on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” and attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, they were met with brutal force by state and ...

The Bloody Sunday marchers walked in pairs across the Selma bridge. Mauldin was in the third pair of the line led by Lewis and Hosea Williams. “We had steeled our nerves to a point where we were ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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 ...

George Wallace, break up a demonstration march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965, on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." (AP Photo, File) FILE - Amelia Boynton is aided by people after she was ...