As the marchers left Selma’s Brown Chapel AME Church on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” and attempted ... the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and approximately 25,000 others to complete ...

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 ...

The incident, later nicknamed “Bloody Sunday,” was the first in ... The second march was held on March 9, 1965, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the demonstrators. The demonstrators were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was ... the Voting Rights Act of 1965. For his efforts to fight racial inequality, King became the youngest person ...