peaceful demonstrators known as “Foot Soldiers” attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge for voting rights in Selma. In their attempt, they were brutally attacked by state troopers ...

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

They planned to peacefully march 54 miles to the state capital ... We have not even made it across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Jim Zachary is CNHI deputy national editor, Valdosta Daily Times ...

The SCLC planned a march to Montgomery for Sunday, March 7, 1965. George Wallace swore to stop it. That Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge near Selma, the marchers encountered a cordon of state ...

(WSFA) - Many tourists will walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge this week to commemorate the 59th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March. Bridge ...

A woman looks at T-shirt with the likeness of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. before a symbolic walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Sunday, March 8, 2015, in Selma, Ala. | Bill Frakes ...

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 ...

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.

WATCH: Harris marks 59th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Vice President Kamala Harris is among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day ...