Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SELMA, AL ‒ Over 60 years ago, on the March 1965 day dubbed "Bloody Sunday," the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, ...

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay joined the call to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama — dedicated to a Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader — to honor Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the civil ...

SELMA, Ala. (WIAT) — On March 7, 1965, hundreds of peaceful protestors marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. They were beaten on what is now known as Bloody Sunday. 61 years later, ...

From Birmingham to Selma to Montgomery, eight historic landmarks trace the courage, sacrifice, and strategy that drove one of the most consequential movements in American history ...

SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - Hundreds of people traveled to Selma this weekend to commemorate the 61st anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a violent moment in history when peaceful marchers were beaten by Alabama ...

Elected officials joined large crowds in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, commemorating the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Eighty-five-year-old Spiver Gordon was ...

TULSA, Okla. — A group of local activists just returned from Selma, Alabama. They were chosen to participate in a re-enactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where 60 years ago, people ...

SELMA, AL ‒ Over 60 years ago, on the March 1965 day dubbed "Bloody Sunday," the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was filled with a crescendo of shouts, of bludgeoning batons. Steady footsteps ...