Articles related to "Voting Rights Act"

The Civil War had been won by the North, but there was still much to do, as both legal and extra-legal means were used to prevent freed slaves from voting.

The nation's civil rights are constantly under attack. If we don't want to repeat history we must get informed NOW! If you want racism to be a thing of the past, read on.

The inaugural benediction speech by Reverend J. E. Lowerey has brought him into the limelight. Find out more about his background in the Civil Rights movement.

After this month's midterm elections, the Democrats are now a political majority. But do these electoral swings impact race relations in America?

U. S. Supreme Court begins the October 5, 2008 session seeming to avoid any cases that might split the court or the nation during the election season.

Barbara Jordan was the first African-American woman to be elected to the Texas House of Representatives, the Texas State Senate and United States Congress.

Martin Luther King sought justice and total racial equality for everyone. So, 40 years after his death, would he be satisfied with America's progress, or disappointed?

It is perhaps most fitting that Mr. Barack Hussein Obama the offspring of both black African and white American parents will become the first black to take the oath.

The Great Society was a philosophical descendant of the New Deal and introduced civil rights legislation that finally brought an end to Jim Crow.

Writers, intellectuals and the media refer to African Americans, Latinos and other people of color as minorities, but it is an inappropriate appellation.

While his life was being scrutinized in the press Senator Edward Kennedy managed to get some of the most important legislation passed in his 46 years in the Senate.