Hundreds gathered Sunday in Selma, Alabama ... rights and led a few months later to the passage of the Voting Rights Act, a federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. On Sunday, there ...

Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights ... Selma bridge crossing jubilee ahead of Super Tuesday. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) SELMA ...

Alabama continues to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, with a series of events in the state’s capital city intended to cause reflection, celebration and ...

Hundreds gathered on Sunday in Selma, Alabama ... Rights Act, a federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. On Sunday, there was a festival atmosphere as crowds stopped to take ...

Hundreds gathered Sunday in Selma, Alabama ... Rights Act, a federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. On Sunday, there was a festival atmosphere as crowds stopped to take ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

Advocates are gathering in Selma, Alabama ... March 1965. Photo: William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images State of play: Civil rights advocates and Black elected leaders tell ...

The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences in civil rights history. The historic Selma to Montgomery, Alabama ...

Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery ... of 25,000 on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. It was a triumphal moment for the civil rights movement that would lead to ...

In early 1965, civil rights leaders — in an effort to draw attention to Alabama ... Selma line up at the county courthouse to register to vote, but are denied. Source: Civil Rights Movement ...