From Jim Crow laws to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ... Below is a timeline of voter suppression in the United States from the post-Civil War era to the present day.

“We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we’ve ever seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes.” That was newly elected ...

VINITA, Okla. – Just weeks after Oklahoma became the nation’s 46th state in 1907, the Oklahoma Senate passed its first law — a Jim Crow law—calling for mandatory segregation between races ...

Jim Crow laws cast a long shadow over the South for nearly a century until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s challenged these discriminatory statutes. Related stories.

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed in the late 1800s and early 1900s that enforced racial segregation. "It's offensive, and for him to be doing it as a Black man, ...

Terror, murder and Jim Crow laws: Explore our timeline of the fight for Black voting rights. Associated Press. Yet as 20th-century civil rights laws stripped away most voting restrictions, voter ...

“We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we’ve ever seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes.” That was newly elected ...

VINITA, Okla. – Just weeks after Oklahoma became the nation’s 46th state in 1907, the Oklahoma Senate passed its first law — a Jim Crow law—calling for mandatory segregation between races ...