Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...
Women from Fannie Lou Hamer to Kamala Harris warned America about threats to democracy. What happens when we finally listen?
President Lyndon B. Johnson marked the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 along with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hearing about the recent Supreme Court decision altering the 1965 Voting Rights Act started me thinking about a local ...
Bill Schechter ’68 argues that three civil rights activists, including a Cornell alum, whose murders spurred the passage of ...
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For decades, US History II curricula treated the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War as parallel tracks, but 2026 is ...
The matriarch of St. Louis traveled with 3-month-old and three other children under 5 years old on a monthslong journey up ...
As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence, old questions have returned about who belongs and whose ...
St. Louis once was the nation’s fourth-largest, home to five national political conventions, major railroad networks, ...
The passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act marked what many historians mark as the actual beginning of democracy in the US.
Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fortify the 15th Amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote, and end ...
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