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. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an ...

Civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, who was from Detroit, was murdered in March 1965 after traveling to Alabama to march for ...

Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights activist from Detroit, was murdered by the KKK in Alabama while marching for voting rights.

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...

It's been 60 years since the historic Civil Rights ... Today, there's new generations of civil rights activists in Selma, and they're still facing many of the problems those marchers sought ...