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

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

Museums across the U.S. are displaying artifacts that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era. Visitors ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate's family and the civil rights group that ...

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 ...