Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote for black people. One of the ...
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...
This article was originally published in the March 26, 1965 issue of TIME in the Nation page. The plan as proposed reaches to the outer limits of what is constitutionally allowed. However, the wrongs ...