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The Voting Rights Act Marks Its 60th Anniversary as Its Core Provisions Are Being Eroded
Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights Act into law. The act protected the right to vote and ensured the government would fight efforts to suppress it,
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...
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DOJ highlights push to go after 'illegal race-based gerrymandering' on Voting Rights Act anniversary
The Trump DOJ is taking aim at illegal race-based gerrymandering and voter roll issues, Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet ...
The Voting Rights Act led to sweeping change across the American South as discriminatory voting practices were dismantled and ...
As voting rights lose ground, The 19th spoke with four of the advocates working to preserve the path to the ballot for the ...
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil ...
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is in Russia to discuss the war in Ukraine ahead of a deadline for peace. And, today marks ...
We cannot deny our ugly history with racial discrimination in this country, especially as it pertains to access to the ...
Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...
The Voting Rights Act was signed 60 years ago today. It was the culmination of a hard-fought campaign by civil rights activists in the South. Now, a Georgia Democrat in Congress is leading the push to ...
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