The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences in civil rights history. The historic Selma to Montgomery, Alabama marches for ...

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 ...

Reverend Jesse Jackson accompanied President Joe Biden in the annual Selma Bridge Crossing in 2023.

Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. It ...

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 ...

New photographs of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks, taken during the historic Selma to Montgomery march in 1965, have been made public for the first time, offering a fresh perspective on her enduring ...

(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 ...

This weekend will mark the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr.-led march for equal voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., and all weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, MSNBC will present ...

The weather was peaceful 50 years ago today in Selma, Ala. - as peaceful as the crowd that had assembled to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on route to Montgomery. The civil rights movement was stopped ...