To ensure voters are informed, the League of Women Voters of Alabama and the Alabama Poor People’s Campaign teamed up to hold a mayoral candidates forum. More than 60 years ago, civil rights leaders ...

March 7, 1965 – approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Sixty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. This was one of the most ...

An Alabama home where civil rights leaders planned marches in the 1960s has been reconstructed in its entirety in Dearborn.

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, the fragility of our rights and democracy is clear, but if ever there was a time to do ...

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...

Sixty years ago today – August 6, 1965 – President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965, giving a ...

Members of First Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Street, the first Black Baptist Church in Selma and one of the first ...

Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the ...