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.

Though MacArthur Cotton was critical of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 82-year-old is even more critical of where things ...

For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an ...

And soon after the turn of the century, African American men began to lose the right to vote -- a right that many states had granted following the Revolutionary War. Simultaneously, voting rights ...

The Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew freedom in. “There was never a question over whether I could vote when I ...

“Register and Vote”, 1972 National Museum of African American History and Culture Pinback buttons for voting rights National Museum of American History Sticker, "I Voted" National Museum of American ...

and in particular their strikingly disproportionate impact on African Americans, policymakers should consider alternative policies that will better protect voting rights without injury to ...

The Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...

Kim Wilks, 37, a sales associate and mother of two, said she was proud, as an African American, to support President Obama. “But things took a bad turn. What happened with Obamacare ...

America needed James Baldwin (1924–1987) during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. With African American voting rights suppressed, with police violence overwhelmingly targeting ...

The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which ...