...exclusion seen by the [department's] Voting Section in decades." Explosive stuff, ...Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which swept away poll...of voters he claimed were illegally voting in Democratic primaries while they ... general election they run and vote for Republicans," complained Ellis Turnage, ... suppress voter turnout, the civil rights establishment continues to resist against ...

... amendments received at least 95 Republican votes. One of the amendments - Iowa ...their first language - gained 181 Republican votes. A majority of House Republicans also... opposed renewal of what civil rights pioneer and Georgia Congressman John ... of House Republicans cast specific votes against maintaining the framework for ... provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that make real the...

...Various Democrats opposed the 1957 Civil Rights Acts. · Various Democrats argued against the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Acts. · Various Democrats argued against the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Acts. · Various Democrats voted...have ended long before 1865 and 1965. Plessy would have never taken ... pieces of previously passed Civil Rights legislation that were designed to ...

... always believed strongly in equal rights and the benefits of social...I didn't have the right," Carolyn Goodman would tell me...politicians started chirping about "states' rights" to white people in places...to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He opposed a...the reach of federal civil rights legislation. Congress overrode the veto...of code words like "states' rights" in place of blatantly bigoted...

...reminiscent of the U.S. civil rights era has broken out in this...Chester is violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a hallmark of the black struggle for equal rights, by insisting its board of trustees be elected by a villagewide vote. Although they make up 46 ... of the Latino immigrants whose rights are at stake remain at ...> these people didn't even vote in their country, probably, I'...

...reminiscent of the U.S. civil rights era has broken out in this...Chester is violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a hallmark of the black struggle for equal rights, by insisting its board of trustees be elected by a villagewide vote. Although they make up 46 percent...Many of the Latino immigrants whose rights are at stake remain at ... these people didn't even vote in their country, probably, I'm...

...deny black people their constitutionally mandated rights. Some may also remember his 1990...Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 that for the ... time gave African Americans the rights guaranteed them under the Constitution ... and Congress uncaring about the rights of ordinary people anywhere. Through ...to advance understanding of political, human rights, democracy, scientific, and social justice ...

...law will prevent fraud. Their opponents rightly point out that the measure disproportionately..., proponents of the cards contend. Right, and I have some nice fertile...the number of citizens allowed to vote." Clay called the measure "nothing more...'s extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. When President Bush ... legislation, he impressively asserted "the right of ordinary men and women to...

... law will prevent fraud. Their opponents rightly point out that the measure ...the number of citizens allowed to vote." Clay called the measure "nothing more...month's extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. When President Bush ...the legislation, he impressively asserted "the right of ordinary men and women ... advance understanding of political, human rights, democracy, scientific, and social justice ...

... prospects. Enforcing party discipline for a purely political Congressional vote last week endorsing Bush's policy, such as it ... this moment to stall the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, enacted after a century of African-American disfranchisement in the south. Their ringleader,... by the American flag." The measure failed by one vote to attain the necessary two-thirds majority. So far...