Raby said the story of Bloody Sunday is one part of a larger historical ... Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, told AL.com that Selma’s gathering should also serve as a call ...

"Down below we saw a sea of blue – Alabama state troopers ... Her inspiration — the Bloody Sunday marchers. Even though beaten back on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, they came back and ...

At the apex of the span over the Alabama River ... At the time, the Bloody Sunday marchers walked in pairs across the Selma bridge. Mauldin was in the third pair of the line led by Lewis and ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers were attacked in Selma on March 7, 1965.

As the marchers left Selma’s Brown Chapel AME Church on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” and attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, they were met with brutal force by state and ...

This moment that seems like a setback is actually a setup,” LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, told theGrio.

“We gather here on the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday when our country is in chaos,” said U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama. Sewell, a Selma native, noted the number of voting restrictions ...

“We gather here on the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday when our country is in chaos,” said U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama. Sewell, a Selma native, noted the number of voting restrictions ...

At the apex of the span over the Alabama River ... the country has changed since the 1960s. The Bloody Sunday marchers walked in pairs across the Selma bridge. Mauldin was in the third pair ...