Hundreds of peaceful protestors were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago today when they were met by a wall of police. Protesters were tear gassed and beaten. A young man ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 7, 1965 8-year old Sheyann Webb-Christburg and 11-year old Joanne Bland joined hundreds of others in a civil rights march ...
Sixty-one years ago, on March 7, 1965, protesters marched in Selma, Alabama, for Black Americans’ right to vote. Part of a larger series of demonstrations stretching to the state capital of Montgomery ...