The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail in Alabama memorializes the route taken by marchers during the Voting Rights ...

President Johnson would soon submit the Voting Rights Act, which would be ... sanctioned a second protest march from Selma to Montgomery. Alabamians were indignant at yet another intrusion of ...

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 ...

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 ...

as they tried to march across Alabama to support voting rights. The march and Garland’s speech were among dozens of events during the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which began Thursday and ...

This year, many of the conversations surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day have involved the new movie “Selma,” about the historic marches ... action on voting rights legislation for ...

In order to get a new law guaranteeing voting rights, civil rights campaigners focused on Selma in Alabama. King organised another non-violent march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery ...

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 ...