9 a.m. - noon, Youth Freedom March, Songs of Selma Park ... Weekend events in Selma and Montgomery honor Bloody Sunday ...

The Selma to Montgomery marches for voting rights represented the ... He died on February 26. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Highway ...

“The March will begin in Selma on Sunday, March 8th, with the Commemoration of Bloody Sunday, and will conclude on Friday, March 13th, with an 11:00 a.m. event on the steps of the Alabama State ...

Three civil rights activists from Selma, Alabama, remember what they marched for in 1965, but they question how much the ...

That day, about 600 people had gathered at Brown A.M.E. Church in Selma, then walked peacefully on Main Street toward the ...

The SCLC planned a march to Montgomery for Sunday, March 7, 1965. George Wallace swore to stop it. That Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge near Selma, the marchers encountered a cordon of state ...

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Alabama this weekend to join Selma's annual commemoration of Bloody Sunday, the White House has announced. Community members and leaders march across ...

JTA’s Selma coverage documented organizations ... zoomed in on the Jewish role. After the “Bloody Sunday” march on March 7, in which many of the 600 protestors were beaten and hit ...

MONTGOMERY—Civil Rights organizations have united to commemorate the 50thAnniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches and the Passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. One of the featured events of the ...

He died eight days later. The violence in Marion served as a precursor to Bloody Sunday and the Selma-to-Montgomery March in March 1965, seminal Civil Rights events that galvanized nationwide support ...