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 ...

A day after President Obama spoke in Selma, Ala., to mark the 50th anniversary ... truncheons at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge. The march started ahead of schedule, Reuters reports, with ...

include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery. The events run from March 3-23.

On the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march that erupted in police violence on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, President Barack Obama praised the figures of a civil rights era that he ...

On March 7, 1965, police beat and tear-gassed marchers at the foot of the bridge in Selma in a spasm of violence that shocked the nation. The attack help build momentum for passage of the Voting ...

"We hear about the bridge crossing ... how Black people were treated outside the U.S. Long before the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, Gildersleeve and others had begun protesting and educating ...

Each March, to mark the anniversary of what became known as Bloody Sunday, the city hosts the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee. VIPs descend on the city to walk across the bridge arm-in-arm and ...

The group of demonstrators finally cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where just ... thousand protestors on a five-day march that started on March 21, 1965, in Selma, Alabama. Here, a boy waves ...

started on March 21 of that year and arrived in Montgomery days later with the crowd swelling to about 25,000. Today, the Selma bridge and adjoining downtown business district look much as they ...

Credit: Alabama State Police Organizers go public with their plan to march from Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and down U.S. Highway 80 to Montgomery. Leaders call Alabama Gov. George ...

An anniversary march from Selma to Montgomery is set to begin Monday ... On Saturday, Obama joined civil rights leaders and others at the bridge and talked about progress in race relations ...

In honor of all the sacrifices made on behalf of civil rights foot soldiers 60 years ago, the following 60 events are ...