Martin Luther King Jr. adorned with flower lei from Hawaii residents who traveled to Selma, Alabama, to join him on a pivotal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences in civil ...

This is the time of year to remember the march in Selma, Alabama (March 7 to 21, 1965). I heard it mentioned on the radio. I visited Selma several years ago. The irony of the site struck me, and I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She promised King, whom she knew as "Uncle Martin," to touch people's lives — mainly so he would give her a cookie, she said.

US President Barack Obama rallied a new generation of Americans to the spirit of the civil rights struggle on Saturday, warning their march for freedom “is not yet finished.” In a forceful speech in ...

This weekend marks the 61st anniversary of the march on Selma, otherwise known as “Bloody Sunday.” One of the most violent marches of the Civil Rights Movement, the protest took place on March 7, 1965 ...

The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Jackson family opened their home to civil rights leaders planning the Selma-to-Montgomery march, which led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The entire house was recently moved to ...

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