Bills have been introduced in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey this session.

Thousands gathered at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge to celebrate and memorialize Civil Rights leaders who Marched in the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.

This Jubilee was a revival of spirit and purpose, not a retrospective, with the goal of encouraging people in the audience to ...

In 1965, activists started a march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the right to vote. However, as they were crossing ...

Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...

A person takes a photo of the march over the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that ...

On Sunday, March 9, civil rights leaders gathered at the City Hall steps to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Edmund Pettus.

(WIB) – Although many freedom fighters and faith leaders make the yearly March pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama in commemoration of the hundreds of civil rights activists injured by police on March 7, ...

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.

There are a handful of photographs of Jesse Jackson that capture not only his unique place in history but that also ...

By Tom Boggs In March of 1965, sixty years ago, a large contingent of National Guard units were federalized, and ordered to ...