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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Columbus Avenue was the scene in this April 25, 1965 photo in which civil rights marchers, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., walked to the Boston Common, where he addressed a crowd. Dr. King came ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches that culminated ... authorities acted with violence upon the peaceful marchers. By March 25 of that tumultuous spring ...