He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.

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

gathered for a peaceful march for voting rights in Selma. But that peace was shattered on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Alabama State Troopers. “They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks ...

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, ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

I’ve never visited the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... Krakow’s Jews were forced to march across the Pilsudskiego Bridge in 1941 to a segment of the city where the Nazis walled them in.

He was the youngest speaker at the event. He was savagely beaten during the "Bloody Sunday" march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., suffering a fractured skull. Lewis entered Congress in ...

on March 7, 1965. More than 15 marchers, who were all trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, were hospitalized for injuries inflicted during the racially motivated attack. "The legacy of Bloody ...

At dawn six years ago, I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge ... gonna come.” Every March, celebrities and dignitaries walk with the townspeople on that bridge, retracing the steps of King ...

The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which ...

Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed on Thursday asked for the removal of a billboard ad that showed a historical photo of state troopers confronting civil rights marchers in Selma on the Edmund Pettus ...