Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...
Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
The Bloody Sunday anniversary is not just about commemorating history. It is about ensuring that we do not repeat it.
However, that didn’t stop a gang of Alabama State Troopers from assembling on the far side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they would tear-gas and violently attack the marchers with the batons.
On March 7, 1965, civil rights activist, John Lewis along with over 600 people set out to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge ... the attack also known as Bloody Sunday, spurred a second march ...
“Bloody Sunday” memorializes the march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge led by Congressman John Lewis and Rev. Hosea Williams. While they and others peacefully walked for civil rights and racial ...
Friday is the actual 60th anniversary of what became known as Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, more than 600 people intended to march across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge and make it to the state ...
The group, organized by the New Democracy Coalition, will walk over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On that day, 60 years ago, peaceful civil rights demonstrators ...
Events may be subject to change. Marchers walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the 59th Annual Bloody Sunday Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma, Ala., on Sunday, March 3, 2024. When ...