Explore the history of voting rights in the U.S. and Tennessee, from early disenfranchisement to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, key Supreme Court cases, and
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act, voter suppression and gerrymandering threaten democracy in Texas. Activists continue the fight for ballot access, honoring the legacy
The fight for African American voting rights, alongside women’s suffrage, began in the 1800s and culminated in the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Notable figures like