The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers ...

Louisiana Attorney General Lizz Murrill's argument that race be ignored in congressional redistricting is a direct challenge ...

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of US Representative John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights leader. Personal Birth date: February 21, 1940 Death date: July 17, 2020 Birth place: Troy, ...

Students represent the Selma, Ala. based human rights organization Student UNITE at the 50th Anniversary Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March on March 25, 2015 in Montgomery, Ala.

On his way to Selma, Obama signed a law awarding the Congressional Gold medal to participants of the trio of marches, the last of which brought protesters all the way to Montgomery.

A historic home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned the Selma civil rights marches was relocated to Greenfield ...

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History lives on almost every corner in Selma, Alabama, and the city invites visitors to celebrate its heritage (and makes it ...

On March 7, 1965, the protesters, almost all of them black, had gathered to march from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery. ... They never made it across the bridge.

The Jackson House, which served as a safe haven for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists in the ...

Instead, Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., of Montgomery, a sometime moderate but—along with President Johnson and Attorney General Katzenbach—clearly a “bad guy” in all the speeches delivered in the church ...

This week, marchers in Alabama began walking east along Highway 80. They're re-creating the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march of 1965, walking 54 miles, often through heavy rain. And now ...