Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. March 21 marks the 61st anniversary of the historic march that Martin Luther King Jr led in Alabama in support of civil rights.

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

Civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. began their third attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. President Lyndon B. Johnson assigned U.S. Army and National ...

This weekend marks the 61st anniversary of the march on Selma, otherwise known as “Bloody Sunday.” One of the most violent marches of the Civil Rights Movement, the protest took place on March 7, 1965 ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that spanned decades. At the heart of this movement were peaceful demonstrations, ...