Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote for black people. One of the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — With a few months left until the opening of the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, the former president’s words he spoke to commemorate the fight for civil ...

This article was originally published in the March 26, 1965 issue of TIME in the Nation page. The plan as proposed reaches to the outer limits of what is constitutionally allowed. However, the wrongs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collection of rare historic photographs of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march were unveiled in a ceremony Tuesday at the state ...

After moving 1,093 miles, the Jackson home sits in Greenfield Village, where visitors can tour it beginning this weekend. Roy Ritchie I grew up in the late 1960s and ’70s in Oak Park, Michigan, a ...

Amid one of the most difficult eras in American history, the weather in the Southeast did nothing to ease the ongoing fight for justice. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark achievement that ...

The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers ...