She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, centre) at the third march from Selma to ...

SELMA, Ala. (WIAT) — On March 7,1965, peaceful demonstrators known as “Foot Soldiers” attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge for voting rights in Selma. In their attempt ...

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, which has an upcoming exhibit on the Selma march, placed the billboard ad.

At dawn six years ago, I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. The sun tried to peek over a cloudy horizon, and cotton blooms swayed in the light breeze like sea oats near the sea.

In the shadow of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, all other things seem small, especially now. Crossing the hallowed ground felt like intrusion, desecration, especially after the senseless death of ...

Harris joined those gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where voting rights activists were beaten back by law enforcement officers in 1965. The vice president praised the marchers ...

They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...

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 ...