On March 7, 1965 — a day that would become known as "Bloody Sunday" — 600 marchers heading east out of Selma topped the graceful, arched span over the Alabama River, only to see a phalanx of ...

A large group gathered in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Bloody Sunday was a 1965 voting rights march met with extreme violence. This year's ...

Her inspiration — the Bloody Sunday marchers. Even though beaten back on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge ... 25,000 people strong on March 25, 1965. There on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol ...

In 1965, the federal government made a rare and decisive move. It sent National Guard troops into Alabama — not by invitation ...

Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and advocate for voting rights. Speakers at the event emphasized the ongoing fight for voting rights and ...

It was 60 years ago that about 600 protesters preparing to march from Selma to the state capital ... s deputies in what became known as Bloody Sunday. The graphic violence grabbed national ...

65 photographs by Spider Martin on view now through June 1, 2025, at the the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts reveal an intimate, first-hand perspective of the Selma to Montgomery March in its entirety.

It's been 60 years since Bloody Sunday, when a peaceful civil rights march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama turned violent as police attacked demonstrators. Advocates in New York ...

March 7, 1965. (AP Photo, File) In 1965, the Bloody Sunday marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams walked in pairs across the Selma bridge headed toward Montgomery. “We had steeled our ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Charles Mauldin was near ... Members of Congress joined with Bloody Sunday marchers to lead a march of several thousand people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

The annual celebration will conclude with a ceremony and march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. At the time, the Bloody Sunday marchers walked in pairs across the Selma bridge. Mauldin was in the ...

George Wallace, break up a demonstration march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965, on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” (AP Photo, File) FILE – Amelia Boynton is aided by people after she was ...