On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama.

Dearborn — Jawana Jackson was four years old when she made a promise to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the Civil Rights Movement, who was a close friend of her parents. She ...

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 ...

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 ...

HONOLULU — Photographs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. adorned with flower lei from Hawaii residents who traveled to Selma, Alabama, to join him on a pivotal Civil Rights march went on public ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A very public conflict between the Bridge Crossing Jubilee, the local group that has been commemorating the ...

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 ...

Selma. For those of a certain age, the word Selma is evocative of a time when people stood against insurmountable odds. It is an ever-lasting illustration of why the right to vote must never be taken ...

A lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow preacher, he played a vital role in organizing voting-rights protests in 1965 that began with “Bloody Sunday.” By Peter Applebome The Rev. Jesse L.

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.