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

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 ...

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

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on March 21, 1965. March Madness 2026: How to watch the UConn vs. UTSA first-round game at the women's NCAA basket ...

Selma was both a moral reckoning and a strategic breakthrough. It reminds us that repression is not evidence of failure — it is often proof that movements are disrupting entrenched power.

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 ...

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

This weekend marks the 61st anniversary of the march on Selma, otherwise known as “Bloody Sunday.” One of the most violent marches of the Civil Rights Movement, the protest took place on March 7, 1965 ...

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 that movement are still returning to Selma.