Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma.

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Thousands of people gathered in Selma on Sunday to honor 61 years since Bloody Sunday at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of activists in the Civil Rights Movement were violently ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — On an early Sunday morning, March 7, 1965, a group of 600 brave black men, women and children and their allies stood on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to begin their march ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago today when they were met by ...

Bloody Sunday happened after days of mounting tensions in the city of Londonderry. A week before the fatal shootings, soldiers had fired plastic bullets and CS gas at protesters at a banned civil ...

SELMA — Brown Chapel A.M.E Church reopened Sunday after a five-year closure due to renovations. But for many speakers commemorating the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, many of the issues of civil ...

As the nation marks 58 years since Bloody Sunday, Black civil rights leaders and elected officials are committed to winning what they see as the modern fight to protect voting rights. On March 7, 1965 ...

Sixty years ago this month, civil rights activists walked across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama before being violently attacked by law enforcement. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.

SELMA, Ala. — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. The marchers were protesting ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about ...