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Governor Nelson Rockefeller preached Sunday sermons at four Black churches in Brooklyn on Oct. 23, 1960. Historian Taylor ...
March 7, 1965 – approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin ...
Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the ...
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) used a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to justify a Texas redistricting effort that Democrats say hurts Black and Hispanic voters."Making comparisons, they have nothing to ...
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 ...
On this day 60 years ago, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. Its protections have been rolled back in recent years — ...
Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the ...
The Trump administration recently released a cache of classified files on the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in ...
The landmark legislation dramatically increased voter registration and participation among African Americans in Georgia and ...