The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark legislation becoming law. Those at the epicenter of the fight for voting ...

A major case now before the U.S. Supreme Court has some fearing that this year's anniversary of the Voting Rights Act may be ...

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a law aimed at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...

Larry Hamm and former Assemblyman Craig Stanley called for passage of state bills to counter what they view as voter ...

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...

March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A ...

Senator Mary Kunesh remarks on the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, highlighting ongoing voting challenges for ...

Thursday was the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and in Morgantown, the Community Coalition for Social ...

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 ...