by Press | Aug 6, 2016 | Blog
In 1964, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, President Lyndon B. Johnson recognized the shortcomings of the Civil Rights Act and instructed Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to draft “the goddamndest, toughest voting rights act that you can.” One year...
by Press | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog
Beginning in 2005, many states began passing overly restrictive voter identification laws; laws that limit the types of identification that that voters could use when voting in person. When the United States Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s law against a facial...
by Press | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog
Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the Mississippi Summer Project. During the summer of 1964, a coalition of civil rights organizations, led by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), organized a movement geared...
by Press | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog
by Marissa Liebling (Legislative Director, Project Vote) & Rosemarie Clouston (National Coordinator, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law) While 38 states and the District of Columbia have created, or are creating, opportunities for their residents to...
by Press | May 9, 2016 | Blog
Since as early as I can remember, I was taught that the only way for everyone to be equal is through education and voting. My ancestors shed blood and tears to provide me and my heirs the opportunity to vote. Now, as a number of states have passed laws that make it...
