August 21, 2020 | Updated July 17, 2020 | Moyers & CompanyMore than fifty years ago, Rep. John Lewis looked on as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. In this video, he reflects on how the March on Washington led to key civil rights laws.
November 14, 2014 | Moyers & CompanyTwo college professors leave academia for the rough-and-tumble world of electoral politics. What did they learn?
October 24, 2014 | Moyers & CompanyTwo experts on American elections talk to Bill about the plot to keep citizens away from the ballot box.
October 9, 2014 | Moyers & CompanyReporter Bob Herbert on his new book, Losing Our Way, an intimate and heartrending portrait of America in economic despair.
January 3, 2014 | Moyers & CompanyBig money has moved North Carolina far to the right politically but citizen protesters are fighting back against “extremist policies.” See why the conflict unfolding in North Carolina could be a testing ground for what’s to come in every state.
July 12, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyMarty Kaplan discusses media distractions that keep us from focusing on inequality, and Gary May puts American voting rights in historical context.
July 12, 2013 | Moyers & CompanyAn acclaimed historian puts into perspective the 2013 Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act, which was signed into law in 1965.
October 19, 2012 | Moyers & CompanyBill calls out corporate executives strong-arming their employees to vote as they say.
October 4, 2012 | Moyers & CompanyUnivision’s Jorge Ramos and María Elena Salinas join Bill to discuss Hispanic influence and power in America, and how it will affect the 2012 election.
The fight over who gets to vote in the United States goes back to the founders and continues to this day. The battle for women’s suffrage was hard-fought but even more so was the long, often violent struggle to win the right to vote for African Americans. The passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 resulted in millions of citizens receiving the franchise for the first time, but since then there have been constant attempts to undermine the law and deny the ballot to those for whom blood was shed so they could make their voices heard. Here are articles and Bill Moyers conversations that chronicle the story of voting rights and the ongoing, perpetual efforts to tear them away.
