The 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march celebrates a series of peaceful ... to deal with future protests in the city; student leaders promise they will seek permits for future ...

The 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march celebrates a series of peaceful ... to deal with future protests in the city; student leaders promise they will seek permits for future ...

Here are some of the Montgomery-to-Selma march activities planned through the ... James Perkins Jr. and the Rev. F.D. Reese in which leaders of the civil rights movement in Selma, both past ...

chronicles Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders’ effort to secure equal voting rights and the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. March 7, 2015: The date when the ...

Nearly 60 years ago, Black leaders organized three marches from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the state capital, to protest legislation preventing Black Americans from voting. The three ...

Civil rights activists reenacting a 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama ... of repeating it,” Jealous said. The NAACP leader said strict voter ID laws that won’t allow people to ...

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.

Credit: Alabama State Police Organizers go public with their plan to march from Selma across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and down U.S. Highway 80 to Montgomery. Leaders call Alabama Gov. George ...

the Selma to Montgomery March, and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will begin March 3 with dozens of events planned. Here are some of the major ...

This Sunday, leaders from throughout Alabama and the entire country will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March and the infamous Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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 pivotal days was March 7 ...