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.
Sixty years ago on March 7, 1965, a group of peaceful, unarmed activists — men, women and children — walked slowly and with purpose toward a mass of hatred. That day on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...
In March 1965, a walk for voting rights took five days to make the journey from Selma to Montgomery. On Saturday, Feb. 22, a group will use bicycles to make the same trip in hours. In honor of the ...
Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote for black people. One of the ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March is approaching, and so is an immersive new way to experience the historical event in the 21st century. The City of ...
The plan we were pondering—as students at Ripon College in central Wisconsin, 60 years ago this month—seemed crazy at first. But it was the 1960s, and we were young and brimming with the idealism of ...
Events, many of them free, include a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches are led by Salute Selma, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee and the city of Montgomery. The ...
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