60th anniversary of Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march remembered
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Montgomery to commemorate the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march.
Federal judges have ruled that Alabama intentionally diluted the voting strength of Black residents when it redrew congressional lines and said the state must continue using a court-ordered map that led to the election of the state’s second Black congressman.
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Montgomery to commemorate the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march.
People from across the country spent the weekend in Montgomery to mark the 60th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights.
The City of Montgomery has several events planned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march of 1965.
About 50 people who want to retrace the steps of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march of 1965 have set off on their own journey.
Here are the events scheduled for the Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma, which commemorate the voting rights marches of 1965.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– People in Marion are commemorating the historic events that happened in their hometown 60 years ago — events that would eventually lead to Bloody Sunday — the Selma to Montgomery march — and the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Voting rights martyr Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot by a state trooper on February 18th,…
Alabama’s congressional district map is the subject of a federal trial to decide if the state will keep the new court-created district that led to the election of a second Black representative.
A portion of a new Alabama law limiting help with absentee ballot applications will remain blocked, a federal appeals court has ruled.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– The National Voting Rights Museum in Selma — has been sharing the story of the Selma Voting Rights Movement since 1991. But now the museum is at risk — of closing it’s doors. Co-founder Hank Sanders says the museum is in bad financial shape. “If we don’t do something then the National Voting Rights Museum…