The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches that culminated in the passing of the landmark Voting Rights Act, will be commemorated in March of 2025. As in ...

You can travel along the Selma to Montgomery March route to see the route taken by marches, see where the tent camps were set up, and learn about what went into this civil rights movement.

On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. As they ...

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The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail traces the route of the 1965 Voting Rights March, where civil rights protestors were attacked by police, raising support for the Voting Rights Act of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 6, 1965 (UPI) --Gov. George C. Wallace announced Saturday he would not let Negroes march from Selma to Montgomery Sunday, but integration leaders said that if state police ...

A retired Methodist pastor will share his story about joining the civil rights movement in a presentation on December 14 at ...

civil rights campaigners focused on Selma in Alabama. King organised another non-violent march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery to present a petition to the governor asking for equal ...

The son of Alabama sharecroppers, John Lewis became a major leader in the civil rights movement ... the Freedom Rides, and the Selma-to-Montgomery march. As chair of SNCC he coordinated voter ...

On Tuesday, December 3, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, join the Menlo Park Library on a virtual trip to the National Civil Rights ...

The marches from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to secure voting rights for black Americans are depicted in this powerfully moving docudrama set during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and which ...