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A Bizarro Take on the 14th Amendment for the Voting Rights Act

The justices consider tossing a decades-old tool to fight racial discrimination when it comes to fair representation.

50 Years Later, Hiking the “Bloody Sunday” Trail from Selma to Montgomery

Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, 600 marchers protesting for voting equality left the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma headed for the state capitol in Montgomery. Before they had even left town, ...
Texarkana Gazette

The Voting Rights Act is turning 60. Civil rights marchers recall a hard-won struggle

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the now-infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on ...

The GOP’s decadeslong project to dismantle the Voting Rights Act is nearly realized

Ali Velshi breaks down the decades-long conservative crusade to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, which has been championed by ...
CNN

After 36 years in office, Selma mayor voted out

In his first term as mayor of Selma, Joe Smitherman watched police beat civil rights demonstrators embarking on the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. On Tuesday, after 36 ...

After Voting Rights Act case arguments, concerns over diminished minority representation rise

Black lawmakers and voting rights advocates are expressing concern about a potential decline in minority political ...
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Protest at selma Martin Luther King, Jr., and the voting rights act of 1965 David J. Garrow

Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: Voting Rights and Protest; 1. Black Voters and the Federal Voting Rights Enforcement Effort ...