A lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow preacher, he played a vital role in organizing voting-rights protests in ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas, a close aide of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died in 2021, he is remembered as one of King's most ...

SELMA, Ala. (WTVD) -- Fayetteville author Chuck Fager has returned to Selma to mark the 50th anniversary of a march that changed the face of the civil rights movement. Fager is one of the people who ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Broad Street was already shut down at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, yet the traffic lights still switched from red to yellow to green on the road leading to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Barricades ...

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, daughter of slain civil rights activist Viola ...

Following the Bloody Sunday crackdown in Selma, Ala., Martin Luther King Jr. called for support across the U.S. People of different races and... 'A Proud Walk': 3 Voices On The March From Selma To ...

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 white officials ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama ...

This is an opinion column. If you have images in your head of Bloody Sunday in Selma, or the Selma-to-Montgomery march that ended at the State Capitol on this day 60 years ago, there’s a good chance ...

In March, the country commemorated the 60th anniversary of the march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama. A few weeks later, I had the moving experience of walking across the ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The movie "Selma," released earlier this year, showed audiences a part of civil rights history that many did not know. But Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Fiorenza of the ...

March 5, 2007 — -- Sunday's march in Selma, Ala., may have been a sacred commemoration of the "Bloody Sunday" civil rights march of 1965, but beneath it all lurked raw politics, with Sens. Barack ...