National Voting Rights Museum and Institute

1012 Water Avenue
Selma, AL, 36701
334-418-0800

URL : http://www.voterights.org

overview : When the Voting Rights Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, it recognized the undaunted efforts by African Americans and white sympathizers throughout the United States to gain their Constitutional right to vote. - The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Alabama, commemorates this struggle from its start at the birth of our nation in the 1600Òs in Jamestown, Virginia through the extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan.

topics : african, American