Salute Selma to host events for 61st Bloody Sunday anniversary

Salute Selma has announced two days of activities March 7-8 in Selma in honor of the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday and ...

Bridge Crossing Jubilee to honor Rev. Jesse Jackson’s legacy in Selma

Hundreds of Rainbow Coalition members from across the country will gather in Selma this week to honor the life, legacy and ...

See the full event schedule for the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee

All Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee events are being held in Selma. The schedule subject to change. For full schedule, updated ...
NBC DFW

After Selma: Where the Marchers Went

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 Root

After the Egyptian Revolution, Reflecting on the Selma March

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 ...
KVIA

1965 Selma to Montgomery March Fast Facts

Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote for black people. One of the ...
Texarkana Gazette

THE GAZETTE AT 150 | Mob jeers whites in Selma March

(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 ...