• ASU and Voting Rights

    The 1965 Voting Rights campaign played out throughout the Alabama Black Belt, with two major fronts, one in Selma and the second in Montgomery, centered around ASU.

  • Share Your Story

    Please take the opportunity to share your story of participation in the 1965 Voting Rights Campaign. You can share memorabilia, photographs, documents, or participate in our oral history project.

  • Selma to Montgomery Interpretive Center at Alabama State University

    Follow the progress of construction for the third Interpretive Center at Alabama State University for the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.

ASU Calendar of Events

Voting Rights Timeline

  • 1864/1865: The U. S. Congress passes and the states ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution abolishing slavery
  • 1866/1868: The U. S. Congress passes and the states ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution granting citizenship to former slaves
  • 1865-1877: The era of Reconstruction and the beginning of blacks’ right to vote
  • 1870: The U. S. Congress passes and the states ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting African-American men the right to vote