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.

This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday,' a civil rights march in which protestors were beaten, trampled and tear-gassed by police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma.

The 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery was a watershed moment in the fight for Black Americans’ voting rights, but wouldn’t have been possible without a few helping hands along ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 civil rights marchers in front of the state capital building on March 25, 1965, in Montgomery, Ala. (Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images) ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to 25,000 civil rights marchers in Montgomery, 1965. Stephen Somerstein Folk singer Joan Baez in front of a line of State Troopers in Montgomery, 1965.

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.

In 1965, thousands of civil rights activists marched 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, through the heart of the Jim Crow South, to protest racist legal obstacles that were ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The cities of Selma and Montgomery will commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March, and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that ...

President Barack Obama will deliver a speech at the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March on Saturday.

The New-York Historical Society’s show, “Freedom Journey 1965: Photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March”, features work by Stephen Somerstein, a then 24-year-old City College student ...

In 1965 thousands of civil rights activists marched 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, through the heart of the Jim Crow South, to protest racist legal obstacles that were ...