MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 6, 1965 (UPI) --Gov. George C. Wallace announced Saturday he would not let Negroes march from Selma to Montgomery Sunday, but integration leaders said that if state police ...

More than three thousand people joined Dr. Martin Luther King on a march escorted by U.S. Army troops from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, becoming one of the most iconic moments in Civil Rights history.

The 54-mile walk was a pivotal moment of the civil rights movement Of the 15,000 black people old enough to vote living in and around Selma, Alabama in ... the February 1965 photo above, instructs ...

Hundreds of people rallied at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama ... March 9. Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images People hold signs with a picture of late civil rights leader ...

Thousands descended on Selma, Alabama ... rights. The crowds gathered ahead of a speech by President Barack Obama, who will speak on the Edmund Pettus Bridge Saturday afternoon about the future of ...

In 1965, non-violent Civil Rights activists organized a series of voting-rights marches from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, the state capital. African-Americans citizens were disenfranchised across ...

This year America notes the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery ... federal Voting Rights Act and produced photos and television broadcasts that ...

Alabama's voter ID law, which won't go into effect until 2014, will require citizens to present photo ... and killed civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson, prompting the first Selma to ...

Jim Peppler/Alabama Department of Archives and History She lived near Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, which became a vital meeting ground for civil rights activists in the 1960s and for the ...