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

Selma showed the world that change doesn’t come from waiting — it comes from marching, from pushing, from refusing to be ...

"My encouragement to them is get in the fight now," says Lydia Chatmon, director of programs at the Selma Center for ...

America’s climactic battle for civil rights took place in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago. The March in Selma focused on voting ...

The foot soldiers are helped across the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African ...

LYDIA CHATMON: My encouragement to them is, get in the fight now. ELLIOTT: That's Lydia Chatmon, director of programs at the Selma Center for Nonviolence. From the 1865 battle of Selma at the end of ...

In honor of all the sacrifices made on behalf of civil rights foot soldiers 60 years ago, the following 60 events are ...

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 ...

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 ...