Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. SELMA, Ala. — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund ...

FILE - State troopers hit protesters with billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on Sunday, March 7, 1965. (AP Photo/File) FILE - State troopers hit protesters with billy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month marks the 61st anniversary of a moment in the Civil Rights Movement that could have united freedom fighters across ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about ...

This month marks the 61st anniversary of a moment in the Civil Rights Movement that could have united freedom fighters across races. Instead, history followed a disappointing and familiar pattern.