The protests took a wrong turn, of a kind I have seen too many other activist movements take. It’s the same wrong turn that the civil rights movement took in the late 1960s.

National Guard has long history of deployments during civil rights protests. ... troops played a pivotal role in the march often credited with pressuring the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the right to vote. On March 7, 1965, 600 civil ...

Civil rights and voting rights. The American civil rights movement, a mass protest campaign against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States, came to national prominence ...

National Guard has long history of deployments during civil rights protests. ... troops played a pivotal role in the march often credited with pressuring the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

FILE – A civil rights march is conducted on Sept. 4, 1966 in close quarters on Cicero Ave., a main street of this suburb of Chicago. ... Selma, Alabama, voting rights protest in 1965.

Activists would gather here to plan protests and civil rights efforts, and this church was the original meeting place before the march. On the steps of the chapel before the march to Selma, speakers ...

In today’s newsletter: President Donald Trump takes the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division in an unfamiliar, concerning direction, according to current and former employees. Students at ...

Selma, Alabama, voting rights protest in 1965 National Guard troops played a pivotal role in the march often credited with pressuring the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

National Guard troops in LA is latest in long history of deployments during civil rights protests Trump sent about 1,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles despite the objections of ...

National Guard troops in LA is latest in long history of deployments during civil rights protests Trump sent about 1,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles despite the objections of ...

National Guard troops in LA is latest in long history of deployments during civil rights protests Trump sent about 1,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles despite the objections of ...