More than three thousand people joined Dr. Martin Luther King on a march escorted by U.S. Army troops from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, becoming one of the most iconic moments in Civil Rights history.

March 25, 1965 - During the Selma-to-Montgomery march, about 25,000 demonstrators join the marchers when they reach Montgomery for a final rally at the state Capitol. King delivers his famous "How ...

March 7, 1965 - About 600 people begin a march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, led by Lewis and Hosea Williams. Marchers demand an end to discrimination in voter registration.

The roots of the Selma-to-Montgomery march were sowed by the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old church deacon who was shot by a state trooper at a protest in Marion, Alabama, on the night ...

It takes an average person around 108,000 steps to walk 54 miles. About 100 people made those steps this week as they marched from Selma to Montgomery to commemorate the iconic 1965 march that ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- State and local officials believe the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, which celebrates an event that ushered in a new day for civil rights, could well usher ...

On Sunday, Montgomery will look a little different than it did on March 7, 1965, when the Selma to Montgomery march took place. On Sunday, people will gather in Alabama to celebrate what the march ...

It was a glorious moment in American history. On March 7, 2015, forty thousand Americans gathered in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On that day in 1965 ...

Spider Martin’s work documenting the march from Selma to Montgomery is on display at the Levine through February 22. Archival audio for this story came from Pacifica Radio Archives.

The Selma-to-Montgomery March began two weeks after Alabama state troopers beat marchers attempting to leave Selma on a day that came to be called "Bloody Sunday." ...

Civil rights activists reenacting a 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, are doing more than just reliving an important part of American history – they are bringing a new message to an ...

In this March 22, 1965, file photo, participants in the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march are shown at a campsite near Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/File) ...