Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

How the Supreme Court got it wrong.

On the trail to Montgomery.

The right to vote is under the greatest threat since the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.

The activist did not learn about her right to vote until she was 44, but once she did, she vigorously fought for black voting rights

Republicans in Texas, and indeed around the country, remain hell-bent on going back to the future.

The late civil-rights leader understood that grassroots organizing was key to delivering political power to Black Americans in the South.

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

She’s mostly remembered for one famous speech. Her actual legacy is far greater than that.

Did Richmond violate the Voting Rights Act by adding thousands of White residents? The historic Supreme Court case foreshadowed today’s gerrymandering fights.

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.

Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.

A glimpse inside the Alabama State House suggests that the civil rights movement may have reached its end.

By age 44, most people are figuring out how to live and die peacefully. That was certainly not the case with sharecropper and hero Fannie Lou Hamer.

Reconsidering Septima Clark’s life challenges many of our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement and women's roles in it.

A history as intertwined with race as with partisanship.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

After Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.