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 ...

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...

In a move to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the historic Selma to Montgomery March, U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (AL-07) has spearhea ...

WASHINGTON — With the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Mongtomery marches just around the corner, the American Civil Liberties Union urges Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act ...

They stood behind true leaders, including a proud young man from Pike County who would go on to become a U.S. Congressman, John Lewis ... six decades since “Bloody Sunday,” Americans are ...

On March 7, 1965, civil rights activist, John Lewis along with over 600 people ... National outrage over the attack also known as Bloody Sunday, spurred a second march on March 21, 1965 led ...

Correspondent photos / Sean Barron Those who attended a program Sunday at the Tyler History ... Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, who suffered a skull fracture for which ...

“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 ...