Selma to Montgomery Marches Data Source National Museum of African American History and Culture Topic African American Activism Civil Rights Communities Hate crimes Photography Race relations ...

This back-and-white digital image depicts a line of marchers along the top of a hill during the Selma to Montgomery marches. The marchers, both men and women, are moving forward, some of whom are ...

In March, the country commemorated the 60th anniversary of the march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama. A few weeks later, I had the moving experience of walking across ...

When Aysia Adkins, a rising senior at Goshen College, found herself on a Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) site, it changed ...

The third Selma-to-Montgomery march was a civil rights watershed. It also focused the lives of many who gave it its spiritual hue. by William Bole. March 10, 2015. On Media. Epic march. Seven of this ...

We reflect on the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches, a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement that ultimately led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Participating in the event was track and field's Delia Johnson , Dyandra Gray and Jordan Dunigan , baseball's Charlie ...

Instead, Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., of Montgomery, a sometime moderate but—along with President Johnson and Attorney General Katzenbach—clearly a “bad guy” in all the speeches delivered in the church ...

Former Georgia Congressman John Lewis encouraged people to get in “good trouble” during his life. Lewis knew of what he spoke about, having been a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement, including ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard to protect marchers traveling from Selma to Montgomery. The deployment came after Alabama Governor George Wallace refused to ...

In the neighborhoods around the Alabama Capitol, where nearly 50,000 people gathered in March of 1965 to meet the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers and push for voting rights, nearly a quarter of ...