Mar 08 From segregation to Selma: View iconic photos from the Civil Rights movement By News Desk As events commemorating "Bloody Sunday" continue this weekend, take a look back at some of the iconic photos which captured moments in the country's history leading up to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Continue reading
Mar 08 Steps of history retraced at 'Bloody Sunday' commemoration By Associated Press The Bloody Sunday 50th anniversary commemoration continued Sunday with gatherings and other events in Selma before a group retraces the steps that helped secure equal voting rights 50 years ago. Continue reading
Mar 08 Obama: Selma represents living history lesson for daughters By Darlene Superville, Associated Press President Barack Obama had said he was taking his daughters to Selma to "remind them of their own obligations."… Continue reading
Mar 07 Watch 3:34 How much have voting rights changed since the first march on Selma? By PBS News Hour Chief Washington Correspondent for CNBC and political writer for the New York Times John Harwood joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how voting rights have changed the political landscape since the first march on Selma in 1965. Continue watching
Mar 07 Pres. Obama in Selma: 'Our march is not yet finished' By Jay Reeves, Darlene Superville, Associated Press On the 50th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" march that erupted in police violence on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, President Barack Obama praised the figures of a civil rights era that he was too young to know. He called them… Continue reading
Mar 07 50 years after 'Bloody Sunday,' see photos of Selma then and now By News Desk In Selma today, the town of about 20,000 people is roughly 80 percent black and more than 40 percent of residents live in poverty. Continue reading
Mar 07 Video: Obama speaks in Selma on 50th anniversary of civil rights marches By News Desk President Barack Obama and his family were in Selma, Alabama on Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of civil rights marches that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Continue reading
Mar 06 Anniversary of Selma march rekindles Ferguson comparisons By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press WASHINGTON — In only a few minutes on national television, the beatings of civil rights marchers by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, dragged the inhumanity of Southern segregation into America’s living rooms as never before. Continue reading
Mar 06 Obama: Racial bias in Ferguson police department not isolated By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said the type of racial discrimination found in Ferguson, Missouri, is not unique to that police department, and he cast law enforcement reform as a chief struggle for today's civil rights movement. Continue reading
Mar 05 LBJ linked Latinos, civil rights in 'Selma' speech By Russell Contreras, Associated Press Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked a joint session of Congress to respond to the brutal beatings of protesters in Selma, Alabama, by passing a federal Voting Rights Act that would "open the city of hope to all… Continue reading