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.

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 ...

During the third Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965, the Reverend Dr. King, Jr. and others were photographed wearing lei -- gifts from ... other lawmakers and civil rights leaders to march across ...

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 ...

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

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.

On, March 7, 1965, about 600 people began a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery ... to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches that culminated in the passing of the landmark Voting Rights Act, will be commemorated in March of 2025. As in ...

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 ...