In March 1972, just weeks after Bloody Sunday when 13 unarmed civilians were shot by British Army paratroopers, a young Derry ...

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, 2020 in Selma, Alabama.

Bloody Sunday. The violent end to a day of peaceful civil rights protest, and an event that would change a country for decades to come. But this wasn’t the Northern Ireland of January 30, 1972.

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

And that's the legacy of Bloody Sunday and the activism of the march in 1965.” With attention focused on the anniversary, Democrats also hope to press Congress to act on the John Lewis Voting ...

On March 7, 1965, a pivotal moment in American history unfolded as Black civil rights activists faced brutal violence while marching for their right to vote. This tragic event, known as Bloody ...

And the day of peaceful protest that devolved into state-sanctioned violence was coined "Bloody Sunday ... Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a majority of conservative, Republican-appointed ...

In 1965, the Bloody Sunday marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams walked in pairs across the Selma bridge headed toward Montgomery. “We had steeled our nerves to a point where we were so ...