ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of a historic march in Selma, Alabama, where peaceful protestors advocating for African American voting rights were violently attacked ...

Among them were Hosea Williams, John Lewis and local activist Amelia Boynton, who pushed the Rev. Martin Luther ... footage of Bloody Sunday to 50 million Americans. On March 15, 1965, during ...

On March 7, 1965, 600 civil rights ... working directly with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Her photo, beaten and bloody, became a galvanizing cry ...

SELMA, Alabama — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when Rev. Martin Luther ... 1965 for voting rights for Black Americans. Speaking at the 60th anniversary commemoration of Bloody ...

As people gather in Selma to remember "Bloody Sunday,'' some call for action. "We're still in the midst of this struggle,’’ said Bryan Stevenson.

Hundreds took to the Brooklyn Bridge on March 9 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the historic ... all those years ago. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led hundreds in ...

(WBRC) - Hundreds of people gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to honor 60 years since Bloody Sunday ... I met Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s son earlier and it was ...

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Sunday evening, dozens gathered to cross the Broadway bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a historic civil rights event. Bloody Sunday took place on March 7 ...

Led by Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis and others ... And that's the legacy of Bloody Sunday and the activism of the march in 1965.” With attention focused on the anniversary, Democrats also ...