March 25, 1965, marked a turning point in history. America's civil rights leaders completed their 54-mile march from Selma, ...

When I think about what we can learn from the Selma marches, the single most important advice I give is to listen to others.

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.

Richard Smiley is a retired Tampa professor and expert on the civil rights battle of Selma. PICTURED: Richard Smiley. "I think Selma is the foundation," Smiley said. "They were ready to die for the ...

He had no appetite for another battle a year later. However ... King and Wallace both knew that if violence occurred on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma that people throughout the country would lean ...

"My encouragement to them is get in the fight now," says Lydia Chatmon, director of programs at the Selma Center for Nonviolence. A continuum in the struggle for equal rights From the 1865 Battle ...

ELLIOTT: That's Lydia Chatmon, director of programs at the Selma Center for Nonviolence. From the 1865 battle of Selma at the end of the Civil War to the 1965 voting rights battle, she says Selma ...