voting rights

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• SOURCE: Scalawag
  8/3/2020
  

  John Lewis’ Legacy: Four Southern States are Still Battling for Voter Rights

  John Lewis lived to see the birth and dismantling of voting rights that he fought and bled for.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  8/6/2020
  

  The Voting Rights Act Was Signed 55 Years Ago. Black Women Led the Movement Behind It.

  Women such as Amelia Boynton Robinson, Diane Nash and Marie Foster are not acknowledged for their efforts during the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  8/5/2020
  

  It’s Time The ‘Truth Be Told’ About Black Women’s Leadership In The Fight For The Vote

  New digital collection tells the untold stories of Black women’s vital role in the suffrage movement.

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• SOURCE: Real Change News
  7/30/2020
  

  Untold Fight for Black Women's Voting Rights

  In anticipation of Martha Jones' book 'Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All'.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  Trump’s Mail Ballot Claims are Part of a Long History of Voter Suppression

  by Griffin Black

  Over the years since 1965, voter suppression tactics have returned in forms like voter ID qualifications and voter roll purges that force citizens through administrative hoops to reach the ballot box. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/31/2020
  

  Black Women’s Long Struggle for Voting Rights

  "As historian Faye E. Dudden writes in 'Fighting Change,' her book on the suffrage movement in the Reconstruction period, Stanton dipped her pen into a tincture of white racism and sketched a reference to a nightmarish figure, the black rapist'.”

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/29/2020
  

  Dropping ‘Pettus’ Is a Bridge Too Far

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Advocates of renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for John Lewis are disregarding Lewis's published thoughts on the subject. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/27/2020
  

  I Interviewed John Lewis 45 Years Ago. His Commitment To Voting Rights Never Wavered.

  “It’s still a source of pain that the Voting Rights Act has not been more actively enforced,” Lewis told me in 1975, 10 years after passage of the law.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/26/2020
  

  John Lewis Makes Final Journey Across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma (Video)

  Hundreds had gathered along the route from the church to the bridge, some traveling hours to see Lewis’s final journey, others lining up in the early morning.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/25/2020
  

  At Memorial Service, John Lewis’s Family Urges Americans To Keep His Legacy Alive

  Speakers at a public memorial service in Troy, Ala., Lewis’s birthplace, urged Americans to carry on his legacy.

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  7/22/2020
  

  How Voter-Fraud Hysteria and Partisan Bickering Ate American Election Oversight

  Since the early 2000s, an escalating fight over so-called voter fraud has crippled the EAC, often sabotaging its most dedicated commissioners while emboldening those who are less effective.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  7/20/2020
  

  Why John Lewis Matters—Now More Than Ever

  The book and the documentary Good Trouble serve as twin cultural epitaphs for a man widely adored and perpetually being reimagined, discovered, and studied.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  7/19/2020
  

  Police Would Treat John Lewis Today the Same Way They Treated Him in 1965

  "When police beat someone for challenging a morally diseased system, the phrase “beaten for challenging a morally diseased system” rarely gets written in the incident report."

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  7/20/2020
  

  Remembering John Lewis

  by Nicolaus Mills

  How long Lewis expected America to take before it woke up he did not say, but as he showed both in the 1960s and in a political career as a Georgia Congressman that began in 1987 and lasted until his death, Lewis did not tire when change did not go as he wanted.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  7/19/2020
  

  Petition Calls for Selma Bridge To Be Named After John Lewis

  Advocates for the name change include filmmaker Ava DuVernay and South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/19/2020
  

  Democrats Demand Expansion of Voting Rights in Memory of John Lewis

  House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn is calling on Trump to turn words into action.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/18/2020
  

  The World John Lewis Helped Create

  Black leaders pause to reflect on the civil-rights icon and representative from Georgia, who spent decades calling for activism and “good trouble.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/7/2020
  

  It Takes a Long Time to Vote

  by Jonathan Coopersmith

  No federal law governs wait times. Nearly two-thirds of voters in 2012 and three-quarters in 2018 waited less than 10 minutes. But long wait times are a chronic problem primarily for Latino and Black voters in “precincts with high minority populations, high population, and low incomes.”

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/22/2020
  

  A 1960s Lawsuit Against the KKK Can Help Protect Elections in 2020

  The precedent means that election authorities have a positive obligation to alleviate conditions that could make voters afraid to cast a ballot. In the 1960s, that meant the Klan. Under COVID, it could mean crowded polls, long lines, or the lack of means to vote by mail. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/28/2020
  

  How the Spanish Flu Almost Upended Women's Suffrage

  Canceled rallies. A looming election. A stretched health care system with a predominantly female face. Women’s frustrations then resonate loud and clear today.