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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin ...

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been ...