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.

They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...

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

The 60th Anniversary of some of the most momentous events in American History will be celebrated and memorialized in Selma, ...

Bloody Sunday was a violent attack by police and a citizen “posse” on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. More than 15 marchers, who were all trying to cross the Edmund Pettus ...

In May, 1961, they sponsored and orchestrated the “Freedom Rides” to ... local police on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. King joined them the next ...

Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail The Selma Marches were a series of protests that took place in March of 1965 in Selma Alabama. The protests were against Jim Crow Laws, laws that were ...

Azali Fortier, a 17-year-old sophomore at Spelman College who introduced Ms. Harris in Selma and locked arms with her as they walked over the Edmund Pettus Bridge ... cause of freedom or to ...

The image juxtaposed Donald Trump's political slogan with a photo of state troopers confronting civil rights marchers in ...