Photo: Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Civil rights marchers led by Martin Luther King, Jr. cross the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama after being turned back by state troopers.

On “Bloody Sunday” on March 7, 1965, Alabama troopers clubbed civil rights marchers in Selma. Contributing columnist Peter Johnson remembers civil rights activists who died to secure equal ...

Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement ... But the attack on the marchers bolstered support for the Voting Rights Act.

Bloody Sunday happened on March 7, 1965, when about 600 peaceful civil rights marchers were confronted on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by about 65 state troopers, along with deputies and a posse ...

Decades after law officers attacked voting rights marchers, we revisit the event that helped spark passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and hear what civil rights activists are doing in Selma today.

She was there on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago and recalls it as vividly as if it were yesterday — the screams of her fellow civil rights marchers as they were attacked by police ...

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...

Vice President Kamala Harris told thousands gathered for the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, that fundamental freedoms are under attack in ...

Marchers and speakers reflected on the progress made in civil rights while acknowledging the ongoing work for equality. Some attendees expressed concern about complacency and emphasized the ...