The population of the small historic town of Selma, Alabama swells once a year as people from around the nation flock to its ...
On March 7, 1965, a march by over 500 civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ...
Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago today when they were met by a wall of police. Protesters were tear gassed and beaten.
Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, a key turning point in American history transpired in the heart of Alabama, when hundreds of peaceful demonstrators marching for Black voting rights were violently ...