The event was created to commemorate ‘Bloody Sunday,’ the Selma to Montgomery March, and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The festivities kick off Monday evening with the Kingian ...
SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Many tourists will walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge this week to commemorate the 59th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” and the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March.
On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. As they ...
The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches that culminated in the passing of the landmark Voting Rights Act, will be commemorated in March of 2025. As in ...
People across the country are remembering civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Monday. Part of his legacy includes ...
civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Al Sharpton marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during a commemoration of the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, on March 3, 2024.