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 ...

which teaches people about the 54-mile march that civil rights activists undertook in 1965, said Willie Adams, the trail manager for the Selma-to-Montgomery trail. The project will more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

“It is impossible to not picture Alabama when you envision civil rights in America,” advocate Phillip ... who invited protesters to camp on their land during the 1965 march from Selma to 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 ...