54-mile Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights. This is an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at the conclusion of the march. We reprint it in observance of Dr. King’s birthday.

On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. As they ...

On March 15 th, President Lyndon Johnson gave a nationally televised speech giving his support to the Selma marchers ... tour of Montgomery. See spots linked to Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. arrives in Montgomery, Alabama on March 25th 1965 at the culmination of the Selma to Montgomery March. Pictured from left, Ralph Bunche, Dr. Martin Luther King ...

At the end of his speech, he called peace "more precious than diamonds or silver or gold." In March 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. marched with 25,000 people from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama ...

The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery ... authority, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and other activists led a series of protest marches in Alabama. During the weeks in ...

Five Harvard professors and nine graduate students flew to Alabama Monday night to march from Selma to Montgomery with the Rev. Martin Luther King. Three of the professors are from the Divinity ...