The violence in Selma on March 7, 1965, shocked the nation and galvanized support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act of ...

Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered ...

Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote for black people. One of the ...

Activists marked the 61st anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma, Ala., which paved the way for the Voting Rights Act, which ...

Selma was both a moral reckoning and a strategic breakthrough. It reminds us that repression is not evidence of failure — it ...

A delegation from the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission will travel to Selma, Alabama on March 7 & 8 to commemorate ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

This article was originally published in the March 26, 1965 issue of TIME in the Nation page. The plan as proposed reaches to the outer limits of what is constitutionally allowed. However, the wrongs ...

Amid one of the most difficult eras in American history, the weather in the Southeast did nothing to ease the ongoing fight for justice. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark achievement that ...

More than six decades after the marches that helped change the course of American history, some of the people who helped lead ...