Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote for black people. One of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences in civil ...

A pivotal moment unfolded in Selma, Alabama, beginning on March 7, 1965. Roughly 600 courageous demonstrators launched a march that caught the attention of the entire nation. Activists sought to ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gathering in the Alabama city this weekend, amid new concerns ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, ...

This weekend marks the 61st anniversary of the march on Selma, otherwise known as “Bloody Sunday.” One of the most violent marches of the Civil Rights Movement, the protest took place on March 7, 1965 ...

Fifty years ago Saturday, a 52-mile march planned from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, faltered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The voting rights demonstrators encountered state troopers who attacked them ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about ...

SELMA, Ala. — 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 protesting ...

Amid one of the most difficult eras in American history, the weather in the Southeast did nothing to ease the ongoing fight for justice. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark achievement that ...