Image of National Voting Rights Museum

National Voting Rights Museum

The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the events leading up to and including the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, and passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, as well as those who worked for the African-American Voting Rights and Women's Suffrage movements. As the museum describes in its mission statement, it recognizes other people, events, and actions which furthered America's Right to Vote since "the Founding Fathers first planted the seeds of democracy in 1776." The museum was founded by Faya Ora Rose Touré. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
National Voting Rights Museum has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2000 Speech. Most appearances with Bill Clinton (2).

Recent Programs

See all programs

People

    See all National Voting Rights Museum people