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 ...

March 3, 2024 12:45 p.m. SELMA, Ala. — Vice President Kamala Harris told thousands gathered for the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama ...