The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...

The atrocity of “Bloody Sunday” helped move public sentiment, and eventually helped bring about the passage of the landmark voting rights ruling of 1965. Today, the struggle continues. In recent years ...

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 ...

But to the attendees who were part of SCOPE in 1965, Bloody Sunday's big six-oh is significant ... "You know, it's not like so many other things where there's two sides. Racism is wrong, what ...

SELMA, Ala. (WBRC) - Hundreds of people gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to honor 60 years since Bloody Sunday. In 1965, activists started a march from Selma to Montgomery ...

(AP) — John Lewis saw the line of Alabama state troopers a few hundred yards away as he led hundreds of marchers to the apex of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965. Armed with gas ...

Bloody Sunday was a 1965 voting rights march met with extreme violence. This year's commemoration highlights ongoing concerns about voting rights under the Trump Administration. Speakers urged ...