The Supreme Court delayed ruling on a Louisiana congressional redistricting case that some legal experts say could end up ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced the Voting Rights Act of 1965 eight days after “Bloody Sunday,” calling Selma one of those rare moments in American history where “history and fate ...

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 ...

It would be almost another three years before John Lewis got his skull cracked protesting injustice. Three years before he ...

A young janitor’s role in thwarting an attempted bombing in 1958 is the latest addition to an Alabama oral history project ...

Residents and experts say the response is reminiscent of a longstanding dynamic in the state and around the country.

During the Civil Rights Movement, restaurants were vital for protesters and organizers to gather. Here are some of the most ...

In May, a three-judge federal court ruling found that Alabama violated the Voting Rights Act by intentionally diluting the voting strength of Black voters in the state when the Legislature drew up ...

Nearly 29 million voting-age U.S. citizens did not have a nonexpired driver’s license in 2020, according to the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement—about 12 percent of the total population.

Demonstrators walk in Selma, Ala., in March with a sign saying "UNITE TO FIGHT FOR VOTING RIGHTS" to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march that galvanized the passage of the ...

The League of Women Voters of Alabama supported the measures. Kim Bailey, president of the league, said in an interview Thursday that the bills would expand access to voting in Alabama, which ...