voting rights

ACLU challenges disfranchisement

February 9, 2010 By Joel Wendland-Liu

The American Civil Liberties Uunion has filed a federal lawsuit in South Dakota on behalf of Native American voters who were denied the right to vote in 2008.

Court rules in favor of voting rights for felons

January 7, 2010

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, Wash., in a 2-1 decision Tuesday, has ruled in favor of felons the right to vote in state prisons there.

Racist found guilty in 1964 Mississippi killings

June 24, 2005 By Combined Sources

On June 21 a jury of nine whites and three Blacks in Philadelphia, Miss., convicted octogenarian and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter, exactly 41 years after the triple slaying of young...

Don’t take voting rights for granted

March 18, 2005 By Tim Wheeler

SELMA, Ala. — The Rev. C.T. Vivian of Atlanta stood in the midst of the surging crowd at the conclusion of the Bridge Crossing Jubilee here March 6. Well-wishers congratulated him on the big turnout for...