Voting rights for women, immigrants, Blacks, Native Americans and soldiers went through many changes beginning in the late ...

How challenges to the Voting Rights Act could reshape the political landscape Legal challenges surrounding voting rights in multiple states could alter the nation’s political landscape ahead of ...

We need a Voting Rights Act for the 21st century, one that goes beyond the anti-discrimination focus of the 15th Amendment and fulfills the broader promise of equal citizenship promised by the ...

This is the second video in the “State Voting Rights Acts: Explained” video series created by the Center for American Progress and the Legal Defense Fund. This is the second video in the ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

The Rev. C.T. Vivian was a renowned civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. The Voting Rights Act is considered one of the most comprehensive pieces of civil rights ...

Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for legislation to protect the voting rights of African Americans. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 wouldn’t be signed into law until Aug. 6.