{"pk":25290,"title":"Old Battles Are New Again: Revisiting the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The author revists Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, created by Congress to commemorate the historic march of 1965. The only African American site in the entire National Trail System, Selma to Montgomery represents the historical tension between the ideals of American democracy, where all citizens have equal protection and equal rights by law, and the reality of the fight waged by Black voters against discrimination in America. Further, the trail represents the struggle to preserve the history and memory of civil rights sites of conflict as a part of the nation’s historical landscape. Finally, the trail represents the symbolic battle, in real time, of the voting rights movement (which some characterize as “a relic of the past”) in the face of ongoing tangible assaults on voting rights in the 21st century.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Featured Theme Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cs7c79w","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tara","middle_name":"Y.","last_name":"White","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2023-09-15T08:51:50-07:00","date_accepted":"2023-09-15T08:51:50-07:00","date_published":"2023-09-15T00:00:00-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/psf/article/25290/galley/14919/download/"}]}