On March 7, 1965, hundreds of Black activists, led by John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr., set out to march peacefully from ...

The police began beating the protesters when they refused to disperse, leaving at least 17 hospitalized and 40 others needing treatment, with the violence ... Pilgrimage to Selma," featured a festival ...

Historian Forest Issac Jones reveals how the US Selma to Montgomery march influenced the civil rights movement in Northern ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.

The national response to the march and the shocking murder of Viola Liuzzo, the Detroit mother of five who also came to Selma to volunteer, and other Klan murderous violence helped secure passage ...

Their first attempt on March 7 ... victims of violence by white supremacists or members of the Ku Klux Klan. In January 1965, civil rights activists targeted Selma for voter registration drives ...

In the face of a new wave of violence, marchers turned back this time. Then on March 21, this time under the protection of federal authorities, the Selma-to-Montgomery March was finally allowed to ...

After they approached, law enforcement gave a two-minute warning to disperse and then unleashed violence ... Sunday, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Selma on Sunday ...

This is the second year Emory students have participated in the tour organized by the A. D. King Foundation, a non-profit ...