"People are afraid," Selma's mayor told more than 30 Congress members at the start of a weekend of remembrance.
On March 7, 1965, a pivotal moment in American history unfolded as Black civil rights activists faced brutal violence while ...
Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...
Bloody Sunday, civil rights activists warn that the right to vote is in peril due to political attacks and restrictive laws.
Sixty years ago on March 7, hundreds of Foot Soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement were violently beaten and gassed by ...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a moment that marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.
The legislation is named for John Lewis, the late Georgia congressman who was at the lead of the Bloody Sunday march.
John Lewis was among hundreds of peaceful protesters who were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when they were met by brutal police violence. What gave him the courage to stand ...