View the timeline of Black voting rights and voter suppression to learn about important dates in this history. America's long history of Black voter suppression.

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How the U.S. Voting Rights Act was won—and why it’s under fire today. In 1965, this historic civil rights law prohibited discrimination against Black voters.

The Voting Rights Act is a historic civil rights law that is meant to ensure that the right to vote is not denied on account of race or color. Louisiana passes "grandfather clauses" to keep former ...

Why, in many colleges and high schools, might Black history be taught as its own course, ... and 57 years after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which assured everyone the right to vote.

The tangible benefits of the Voting Rights Act for blacks did not stop there, as economic historian Gavin Wright has recently shown. Even before black candidates began to win public offices, even ...

As we honor Black History Month with an African American president in the White House, it is tempting to celebrate the work of the civil rights champions and the passage of the Voting Rights Act as ...

Maxine Bryant looks at the history of suppressing the Black vote and why it is important for African Americans to show up at the polls on May 24.

It would take the blood and effort of the Civil Rights Era of the 1950s and '60s to affix voting rights for Blacks via the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Williams said.

When I wrote a book about Black women’s long struggle for voting rights in the United States, I knew the story was partly about how racism has shaped our democracy.

Elected to the Georgia state Senate in 1868, Tunis G. Campbell spent his life championing the rights of Black people, meeting with fierce resistance at every step.

View the timeline of Black voting rights and voter suppression to learn about important dates in this history. America's long history of Black voter suppression.