Sixty years ago this month, civil rights activists walked across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama before being violently attacked by law enforcement. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.

People take part in a civil rights march across the Brooklyn Bridge in honor of the 60th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday', New ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

Hundreds marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge honoring 60 years since Bloody Sunday. Activists say the fight for voting rights continues, urging civic engagement.

However, that didn’t stop a gang of Alabama State Troopers from assembling on the far side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they would tear-gas and violently attack the marchers with the batons.

Gov. Andy Beshear joined thousands of activists and community members on Sunday marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...

Hundreds of people made the pilgrimage despite bad weather, all marching across the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site where demonstrators were beaten by officers as they tried to march across ...

That day on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the African American ... They were terrorized and beaten — some very badly — by Alabama state troopers, sheriff's deputies and vigilantes.

Sixty years ago, only minutes after hundreds of men and women stood on the sidewalk beyond the peak of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Stood and stared. Stared at the phalanx of gas ...

That day on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the African American ... They were terrorized and beaten — some very badly — by Alabama state troopers, sheriff's deputies and vigilantes.