The grounds of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation are now home to one of the country’s most pivotal residences in civil rights history. The historic Selma to Montgomery, Alabama marches for ...

Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma will be seeing long-awaited renovations this year, with a tentative reopening date set for March 2026. The building was constructed and designed in 1908 by A. J.

The church was the starting point for the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches in 1965. Nearly a quarter of the trail’s ...

Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman John ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...

Selma, Alabama, occupies a unique place in U.S. history as the site of the pivotal civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965—an event forever remembered as “Bloody Sunday.” ...

Phillip Howard, manager of the Legacy Places Initiative for The Conservation Fund, stands in front of the historic Edistone Hotel in Selma, Alabama, which was recently acquired by the Fund. (Courtesy ...

Decades after law officers attacked voting rights marchers, we revisit the event that helped spark passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and hear what civil rights activists are doing in Selma today.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Park Guide April Baldwin discusses how poll taxes and literacy tests served as barriers to voting in ...