Edmund Pettus Bridge

2025 includes three key anniversaries in the Alabama civil rights movement. This December will mark seventy years since the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 2025 is also the sixtieth anniversary of the shooting of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, which led to the March 7th demonstration over the Edmund Pettus bridge that culminated in Bloody Sunday. The city of Selma will remember that day with this weekend’s bridge crossing jubilee.

2025 includes three key anniversaries in Alabama’s fight for civil rights. This December is the seventieth anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This year also marks sixty years since two events in and around Selma. Next week marks the sixtieth anniversary of the civil rights incident known as “bloody Sunday,” and the shooting that inspired it. An Alabama State Trooper shot activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, who died eight days later. APR news collaborated with the University of Alabama’s Center for Public Television to bring you this account from someone who was there…

The first life-sized sculpture honoring Representative John Lewis has been unveiled in Alabama. The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) showcased the new display at Legacy Plaza in Montgomery, across from the Legacy Museum. The statue joins the sculptures of Rosa Parks and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

On Friday, February 23, the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC), a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Alabama State Office will host Selma the Musical: The Untold Stories at the Montgomery Performing Arts Centre for one night only.

The Montgomery Martin Luther King Committee will celebrate Martin Luther King Day by holding a parade in downtown Montgomery today. The 10th Annual MLK Classic Step Show will take place in Dothan tonight from 5 to 9. It features steppers from various college fraternities and sororities, and local youth groups.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Junior mapped out the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan. The structure will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation.

President Biden spoke to Selma and the nation during Alabama’s annual bridge crossing jubilee. The White House described the address as a way to re-focus on voting rights.

The White House says President Biden will be heading to Alabama this Sunday to speak during an annual event linked to civil rights and voting rights.

The 56th Annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee is planning for completely online programming this year. The event commemorates “Bloody Sunday,” the day in…

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis has crossed Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time as remembrances continue for the civil rights…