Sixty years ago on March 7, 1965, a group of peaceful, unarmed activists — men, women and children — walked slowly and with purpose toward a mass of hatred. That day on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...

Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery. The ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The cities of Selma and Montgomery will commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March, and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Growing up in Montgomery, 17-year-old Ryley Tate Wilson said he's studied his city's role in the Civil Rights Movement — including a major piece of it that happened more than 40 years before he was ...

The plan we were pondering — as students at Ripon College 60 years ago this spring — seemed crazy at first. But it was the 1960s, and we were young and brimming with the idealism of the age. So, we ...

The Montgomery Bicycle Club will hold a 51-mile bike ride in honor of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. The cost to participate is $265 for cyclists and $145 for non-riders. The event will include ...

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union proposed to enlarge the American promise of prosperity by introducing a new tax structure for the very wealthy, tax credits for families outside of the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The cities of Selma and Montgomery will soon commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March, and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of ...