More than three thousand people joined Dr. Martin Luther King on a march escorted by U.S. Army troops from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, becoming one of the most iconic moments in Civil Rights history.

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

But historians and Selma natives say the marches wouldn ... On the last attempt, on March 21, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators marched from Brown Chapel AME Church, across the Edmund ...

As part of CBS News' coverage marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march in Selma, CBSN will be airing an encore presentation of the hour-long special "The Road to Civil Rights ...

The 50th anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., is a reminder of the critical role the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. played in American history. Dr. King, whose birth ...

So it was last week in Selma, Ala.," Johnson said. A foot soldier for civil rights at 11 years old Bland was just 11 years old on March 7, 1965, the day now known as "Bloody Sunday." She had come ...

This weekend marks a return to one of enduring touchstones of the civil rights movement. It is the 60th anniversary of Selma. A march across the town’s chunky metal bridge will take place ...

The National Park Service is combining two properties to expand the Selma Interpretive Center, which teaches people about the 54-mile march that civil rights activists undertook in 1965 ...

March 7 marks the 59th anniversary ... As the co-author of "Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil-Rights Days," she hopes her story can be the motivation for the next generation ...

two others were killed in or near Selma: Jimmie Lee Jackson, a black civil rights worker shot by state troopers, and James Reeb, a white Unitarian minister beaten to death March 11 after leaving a ...