Constitutional Law,
Civil Rights
Aug. 6, 2025
The 'American Promise' still speaks but are we listening?
On the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, we are reminded that this landmark law embodied America's promise of equal voting rights -- a promise now tested by modern efforts to erode its protections.
Sidney Kanazawa
Mediator/Arbitrator, Attorney
ARC (Alternative Resolution Centers)
Email: skanazawa@arc4adr.com
USC Gould School of Law
On the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, it's appropriate to remember that a bipartisan we -- not a singular minority -- put in place this law that gave substance to the 15th Amendment, which we, as a nation, ratified in 1870.After the murder of voting rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner by Ku Klux Klan members in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, the killing of activist and deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson by state troopers in S...
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