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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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

Both of these policies probably hastened the Panic of 1893. Harrison supported bills that promoted voting rights of African Americans in the South, but could not get them through Congress.