This year marks the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a moment that marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. The march turned ugly and Lewis was almost beaten to death after enduring ...
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 ...
On this day, March 7, in 1965, state troopers and a sheriff’s posse used tear gas and billy clubs to break up a march by civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Ala. Televised images of the brutal attack ...
The use of archive footage of paratroopers from Bloody Sunday in a Conservative Party video message on British army veterans has been branded "disgusting".