SELMA, Ala. (WCSC) — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital in Montgomery on this day in 1965.
Nearly 3,000 people participated in the five-day march, which was held to protest the denial of nationwide voting rights to Black Americans.
Marchers covered nearly 10 miles per day along U.S. Route 80, traveling under the protection of federal troops…