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Voting Rights Act is attacked Express-News Copyright 2012 Express-News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 09:26 p.m., Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has opened a new front in the state's war with the federal government over election law, directly challenging the constitutionality of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. The new argument was voiced Wednesday in a lawsuit that asks a federal court in Washington, D.C., to approve Texas' controversial Voter ID law, which the U.S.

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    The U.S. Department of Justice announced it was suing a central Georgia county over how it elects at-large members of its county commission.
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  • San Diego Jewish Women make Pilgrimage to the Deep South learning about the Civil Rights Movement just days before MLK Day
    Women from the Jewish Federation of San Diego visited with civil rights icons remembering the road to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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  • John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
    As states around the country have been passing voter suppression laws or similar policies, work continues to be done to protect citizens rights to vote through the John R. Lewis ...
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  • A history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
    Voting has become the most frequently practiced and revered civic duty of everyday Americans. Over 700,000 cast ballots across Philadelphia in November for president and other offices.
    01/17/2025 - 9:00 pm | View Link
  • Hazleton leaders, candidates discuss voting rights lawsuit
    As a candidate for city council two years ago, Carlos Monclus walked every street in Hazleton, knocked on doors and talked to voters. Like other Hispanic candidates before him, Monclus lost.
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  • The Voting Rights Act Explained | Brennan Center for Justice
    What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965? Regarded as the legislative crown jewel of the civil rights era, the Voting Rights Act was enacted as a comprehensive tool meant to undo the political hold of Jim Crow policies in the South and related discriminatory structures nationwide.
    01/16/2025 - 5:07 pm | View Link
  • Voting Rights Act | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica
    Voting Rights Act, U.S. legislation (August 6, 1965) that aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.
    01/16/2025 - 1:15 am | View Link
  • VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965
    AN ACT To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known as the ‘‘Voting Rights Act of 1965’’. ø52 U.S.C. 10101 note¿ TITLE I—VOTING RIGHTS ...
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  • Voting Rights Act of 1965 ‑ Definition, Summary & Significance
    The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising...
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  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
    Designed to enforce the voting rights protected by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Act sought to secure the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country, especially in the South.
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