SELMA, Ala. -- Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gathering in the Alabama city this weekend, amid new concerns ...
In 1965, the event known as "Bloody Sunday" propelled the passage of the Voting Rights Act. People in Selma, Alabama, react to the recent Supreme Court decision that gutted many of its protections.
SELMA, Ala. (WCSC) — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Brown Chapel AME Church 61 years ago to demand the right to vote. Civil rights activists including John Lewis and Hosea Williams walked six ...