Figures, speaking to Reuters within sight of the capitol steps where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to the marchers in 1965, ...

A 90-year-old Amherst veteran who marched in Selma reflects on lost friends; civil rights progress and why he fears ...

Recently, I have been listening to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s engaging memoir, “An Unfinished Love Story,” which chronicles her ...

From Birmingham to Selma to Montgomery, eight historic landmarks trace the courage, sacrifice, and strategy that drove one of ...

Thousands of people rallied Saturday in the city considered the crucible of the modern Civil Rights Movement to push back ...

The couple who founded Selma's annual Bloody Sunday commemoration say teaching history is critical as state lawmakers redraw ...

Betty Strong Boynton, now 77, joined by others, retraced the Selma-to-Montgomery march route decades after she first faced state troopers during the pivotal Bloody Sunday. This symbolic march ...

Thousands crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma demanding protection for Black voting power after the gutting of the ...

SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) – Betty Strong Boynton marched into history as a teenager in the 1960s, when she was among the hundreds of peaceful protesters attacked by club-wielding Alabama state ...

In Alabama, thousands of people joined a rally at the state Capitol in Montgomery on Saturday, demanding an end to racist ...