Laws and legislation
Voting Rights Act Extension (H.R. 6219)
Voting Rights Improvement Act of 1992 (H.R. 4312) and Voting Rights Extension Act of 1992 (H.R. 5236)
Woman Looking at a Sample Voting Ballot
An African American woman reads a sample ballot during a class for new voters at an Alabama church. Civil rights groups held classes in Alabama and Mississippi about voting and registration after enactment of the Voting Rights Act.
Registrar Fills Out Form
Federal voter registrar Louis Searson fills out a form for a prospective Negro voter as others wait their turn in Canton, Mississippi. The Supreme Court returned to the bench on January 17th to hear a massive Southern challenge of the validity of the 1965 Voting...
Voting Rights Act Press Conference in Washington, D.C.
Signing of the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006
US President George W. Bush (C) signs H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 as members of Congress watch on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, July 27, 2006. The...
Voting Rights Poster and Man on Grass
An African American man lays on the grass under an American flag. Behind him stands a "Support Voting Rights Now!" Poster.
Civil rights
Introduction of H.R. 12262 (H. R. 4249) to extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965
The 1965 Voting Rights Act
