Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...

James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed ... the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, while on their way to ...

after state troopers shot and killed civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion, Ala. His death led to protests that went on for weeks, and culminated on March 7, 1965. That day became ...

As a twentysomething freelance journalist at the Birmingham News, James "Spider" Martin was tasked with capturing these moments with his camera, after state troopers shot and killed civil rights ...

Selma, Alabama, has a population less than ... advocates were fed up with lack of justice for Jimmie Lee Jackson. Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler shot and killed the 26-year-old Baptist ...

and children from Selma, Alabama, toward the state capital in Montgomery. They were marching for the right to vote and in protest of the tragic death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who had died just days ...

She was there on the bridge that day. Sheyann Webb-Christburg was 9 years old on March 7, 1965. She was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “smallest freedom fighter.” She lived next to Selma’s Brown Chapel ...

Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965. The annual ...