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The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...
Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark legislation becoming law. Those at the epicenter of the fight for voting ...
Larry Hamm and former Assemblyman Craig Stanley called for passage of state bills to counter what they view as voter ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states.
August 6 is the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Let us honor the sacrifices of the past by recommitting ourselves ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...
Thursday was the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and in Morgantown, the Community Coalition for Social ...
When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...
Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the ...
Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to an immediate wave of Black voter participation. 60 years later, that participation is under threat.
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - August 6th, 1965 symbolizes a significant turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. That was the ...