In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...

Prolific civil rights attorney Fred Gray talks outside of the Alabama Bar Association in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle) ...

As a destination, Montgomery is a journey in contrasts. The Alabama capital is both a proud epicenter of the mid-20th-century civil rights movement and a landscape curiously steeped in Confederate ...

Commemorate the Selma to Montgomery March by pulling to the roadside on U.S. 80 next to the “Welcome to Historic Selma” sign to visit Civil Rights Memorial Park.

*** Last Sept. 6-9, 35 members of the League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge and their guests traveled to and from Alabama, where they toured civil rights sites in Tuskegee, Montgomery and Birmingham.

While Montgomery's gone viral, see Black-owned spaces and places that commemorate the Black experience in the state's capital.

The National Park Service has awarded over $3.1 million in grants to six civil rights preservation projects in Alabama, the agency announced Thursday.

Plans to revitalize the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail have been in the works for years, and this Saturday Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed and other local leaders will complete one of ...

In Montgomery, the 40 names of those martyred in the Civil Rights Movement are carved into the black granite of the Civil Rights Memorial, accessible to the public 24-hours a day.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — This week marks 67 years since the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and those in the capital city are looking back on that historic demonstration. What began with Rosa Parks … ...

The monument is on display in Montgomery at the Southern Poverty Law Center's Civil Rights Memorial Center. It's a towering piece in which four figures are stacked to represent the historical ...