SELMA, Ala. -- Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

A pivotal moment unfolded in Selma, Alabama, beginning on March 7, 1965. Roughly 600 courageous demonstrators launched a march that caught the attention of the entire nation. Activists sought to ...

Fifty years ago Saturday, a 52-mile march planned from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, faltered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The voting rights demonstrators encountered state troopers who attacked them ...

Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. It ...

The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail in Alabama memorializes the route taken by marchers during the Voting Rights March from March 21 to March 25, 1965. This complete guide includes history ...

Sixty years ago, on March 7, Sheyann Webb-Christburg walked with 600 other activists in Selma, Alabama, to protest Black voter suppression. As they reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge, just six blocks ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — People across the country are remembering civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Monday. Part of his legacy includes leading a march from Selma, Alabama to the state ...

SIOUX CITY | Mike Hand is 21 and a student at St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa, when images of "Bloody Sunday" spur him to action. They move him 820 miles to be exact. From Davenport to Selma, ...

It was a mere 59 years ago that thousands stood up to oppression and marched from Selma for the right to vote in Alabama. Just getting started was a testament to their courage, a test of their ...

Today's James Naughtie spoke to Dr Clayborn Carson, the editor of Martin Luther King's papers at Stanford University, and to Sheyann Webb-Christburg co-author of the book 'Selma, Lord, Selma'. Sheyann ...