In Alabama on March ... other civil rights demonstrators made their historic march from Selma to Montgomery. Photos taken of the march show King and others wearing Hawaiian flower leis.

More than three thousand people joined Dr. Martin Luther King on a march escorted by U.S. Army troops from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, becoming one of the most iconic moments in Civil Rights history.

The last time was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the National Guard to protect Civil Rights marchers from ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A month after Hawaii became ... 1965 King and other civil rights leaders wore lei when they led a history-making march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.

March 7 marks the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Sheyann Webb-Christburg had just turned 9 years old when she became Selma's "smallest freedom fighter," joining protesters walking from Selma ...

That is the implicit message of the new movie “Selma,” a stirring depiction of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting-rights march told ... of glory around the civil rights movement of that era ...

Fifty years after the Selma ... and the 1960s civil rights movement have been achieved. Forty-three percent think most or all of the goals have been met. The Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965 ...

will contain artifacts from the civil rights movement — including a billy club and cattle prod once used against the marchers — as well as photographs the late James “Spider” Martin shot ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The cities of Selma ... March 21: This Side of the Bridge Reception | 6:30 p.m.-10 p.m. | Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts | Heavy hors d’oeuvres, recognition of Civil ...

But in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter protests what truly sets the film apart is its panoramic and complex view of the civil rights movement ... Selma to Montgomery demonstrations took place from ...

During the civil rights movement, the church served as a meeting place for the foot soldiers on Bloody Sunday before the ...

the Selma to Montgomery March, and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee began March 6 with dozens of events, including a mass meeting, the Foot Soldiers ...