Article: 'Selma to Montgomery March' Anniversary Committee announces 25th anniversary celebration of voting rights campaign of 1965.

Article: Bullets to ballots: looking back at Selma, building ...
Black Issues Book Review;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The Unfinished Agenda of The Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March (John Wiley & Sons, March 2005 ... publication, examines the history of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march in Alabama 40 years ago, and the role ...

Article: Justice Department Files Voting Rights Lawsuit ...
U.S. Newswire;  May 18, 1993 ;     522 words ... ... Justice filed a voting rights lawsuit against Selma, Ala., and the ... Mobile, charged the Selma city council with violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and ... been involved in voting rights litigation in the city of Selma on almost a continuing ...

Article: HISTORY LESSONS STAFF OF SELMA MUSEUM HAS FRONT-DOOR VIEW ...
Evansville Courier & Press;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 1965 when the Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights became an emotional ... Bland noted Selma is the only ... wholly on the voting rights movement ... died to gain voting rights. Jackson was ... grandfather. The Selma-to-Montgomery ...

Article: 1960s Selma spawned national voting rights ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  June 12, 2005 ;     684 words ... ... trooper that killed voting rights protester James ... landscape-shifting Voting Rights Act of 1965 emerged ... bloodshed along Selma's Edmund Pettus ... speech to approve voting rights protections. In ... the streets of Selma in broad daylight ...

Article: Activists observe Selma anniversary; About 10,000 remember ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  March 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ...SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Aging ... 40th anniversary of the Selma voting rights marches that opened ballot ... Lyndon Johnson, signed the Voting Rights Act into law in 1965 ... written by the people of Selma," said Rep. John Lewis ...

Article: Remarks on the 35th Anniversary of the 1965 Voting ...
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents;  March 13, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... lives in the voting rights crusade. Some died in Selma and Marion ... last week in Selma, Alabama ... Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, proclaiming ... said that the Voting Rights Act was signed ... in blood in Selma. Those who ...

Transcript: REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE PEOPLE OF SELMA, ...
Regulatory Intelligence Data;  March 5, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... lives in the voting rights crusade. Some died in Selma and Marion ... last week in Selma, Alabama ... Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, proclaiming ... said that the Voting Rights Act was signed ... in blood in Selma. (Applause ...