Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...
ELLIOTT: That's Lydia Chatmon, director of programs at the Selma Center for Nonviolence. From the 1865 battle of Selma at the end of the Civil War to the 1965 voting rights battle, she says Selma ...
Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.