Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark legislation becoming law. Those at the epicenter of the fight for voting ...

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

Alabama leaders and people of all ages will gather in Selma Wednesday, August 6, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Civil Rights Memorial ...

SELMA, Ala. ( WSFA) - In celebration and commemoration of the anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ...

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...

March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A ...

A celebration has been scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 6, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.

SELMA, Ala. ( WSFA) - Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of a landmark piece of legislation: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was a joyous celebration of 60 years at First Baptist Church in Selma.

Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a law aimed at ...

The ceremony remembers the nonviolent peaceful march that began in Selma, Alabama, and the violent attack against the marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The event became known as Bloody Sunday ...