That day, about 600 people had gathered at Brown A.M.E. Church in Selma, then walked peacefully on Main Street toward the ...

March 7, 1965. George Wallace swore to stop it. That Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge near Selma, the marchers encountered a cordon of state troopers backed by Sheriff Jim Clark and a group of ...

Three civil rights activists from Selma, Alabama, remember what they marched for in 1965, but they question how much the ...

Their goal was to march from Selma to the state capital – Montgomery. After only a few miles, the group was met by troopers on the Edmund Pettis Bridge and pushed and beaten back to Selma.

Sunday marked the 56th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr’s “Bloody Sunday” march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma for voting rights. About a hundred people honored his actions by ...

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

Cambridge resident Roy Davis remembers approaching Edmund Pettus Bridge for the first time during the march from Selma to ...

The march and Garland’s speech were among dozens of events during the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which began Thursday and culminated Sunday. The commemoration is a frequent stop for ...

Part of his legacy includes leading a march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery in March of 1965. Demonstrators were fighting racial voter discrimination. It’s been nearly 60 ...

MAGGIE TROVATO [email protected] Jan 21, 2025 Jan 21, 2025 CAMBRIDGE — Cambridge resident Roy Davis remembers approaching Edmund Pettus Bridge for the first time during the march from Selma ...