This year marks the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — one of the most consequential ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — one of the most consequential ...

On March 25, 2015, around 3,000 marchers participated in a commemorative march starting at Montgomery's City of St. Jude and ending at the Capitol Building in Downtown Montgomery, Ala., reenacting the ...

While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody ...

50 years ago, reporters in Alabama captured the tension and violence as segregationist opposition to the Selma Voting Rights Movement ramped up. EDITOR’S NOTE: In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — one of the most transformative laws in American history. Signed into law after the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, the Voting ...

NEW YORK CITY -- 55 years ago, in the spring of 1965, Lynda Blackmon Lowery was the youngest civil rights marcher to walk with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery. She was jailed nine ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — one of the most transformative laws in American history. Signed into law after the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, the Voting ...

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This year marks the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history.