The Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the legal blows it has taken, are central to the current political fight over voting access. Kaz Fantone for NPR hide caption ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 changed all that because courageous Americans like John Lewis put their lives on the line. Over the past decade, ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 tackled voter suppression in the United States. While it significantly increased the registration of Black voters, it was not without controversy.

President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President’s Room near the Senate Chambers on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 6.

The Voting Rights Act cleared the chamber by a 77-17 vote on May 26, 1965. The bill faced similar scrutiny in the House of Representatives, where some felt it did not go far enough against ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been slowly whittled away over the last decade by the Supreme Court — and a case set to be heard in the fall could shrink the protections offered by the law ...

Sunday marked 58 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Since then, local voting rights activist have said there have been multiple challenges to the right to vote.

On Aug. 4, 1965, the United States Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This “act to enforce the 15th Amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment ...

WASHINGTON — Joel Finkelstein is an accidental witness to one of the seminal events of the civil rights movement, the signing in 1965 of the Voting Rights Act. He was a year out of law school at ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Pamiel Gaskin remembers when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law. She was just a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin and couldn't vote yet because ...