The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences in civil rights history. The historic Selma to Montgomery, Alabama marches for ...

Fifty years ago Saturday, a 52-mile march planned from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, faltered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The voting rights demonstrators encountered state troopers who attacked them ...

The weather was peaceful 50 years ago today in Selma, Ala. - as peaceful as the crowd that had assembled to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on route to Montgomery. The civil rights movement was stopped ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody ...

As Egyptians celebrate the end of Mubarak’s 30-year reign, Nicolaus Mills, a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, remembers the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. In this essay, he talks about the ...

This weekend will mark the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr.-led march for equal voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., and all weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, MSNBC will present ...

(March 7, 1965) -- SELMA, Ala. (AP) -- A hostile and angry crowd of white persons jeered other whites protesting alleged discrimination against Negroes on Saturday at about the same time Gov. George C ...

The nation's first black attorney general and Gov. George C. Wallace's daughter celebrated the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march Sunday — 44 years after state troopers from her father's ...

In March, the country commemorated the 60th anniversary of the march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama. A few weeks later, I had the moving experience of walking across the ...

New photographs of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks, taken during the historic Selma to Montgomery march in 1965, have been made public for the first time, offering a fresh perspective on her enduring ...

On March 25, 1965, the historic Selma to Montgomery March concluded with 25,000 people listening to Martin Luther King in his “Not Long, How Long?” speech at the Alabama state Capitol. Two weeks ...