King touched on the current political climate throughout the event. He compared his father’s mission of non-violence to the ...

Sixty years ago this week, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led civil rights demonstrators on their third attempt to march from ...

By Tom Boggs In March of 1965, sixty years ago, a large contingent of National Guard units were federalized, and ordered to ...

Montgomery, Alabama, the final site of a crucial march from Selma, is set to celebrate the 60th anniversary of an event that ...

On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third attempt to march from ...

At the meeting, Chaplain Thompson was the first to speak, arguing that traveling to Selma, where the voting rights march was ...