01.29.2009 9:00 pm

Will the Supreme Court blunt the Voting Rights Act?

Voting rights march in 1965.

When the Rev. Joseph Lowery delivered the benediction at President Barack Obama’s inauguration, he wore the joyful expression of a man vindicated after a lifetime of struggle.

Mr. Lowery, as a Methodist minister in Mobile, Ala., helped…

Tags: Civil Right No. 1, civil rights, Joseph Lowery, Martin Luther King Jr., pre-clearance, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Supreme Court, voting rights

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04.02.2008 11:03 am

Instant Editorial: A gunshot in Memphis

By Kevin Horrigan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

At 6:01 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leaned across the balcony outside Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., to chat with some friends in the parking lot below. There was…

Tags: J. Edgar Hoover, James Earl Ray, Lorraine Motel, Martin Luther King Jr., St. Louis, St. Louis Globe-Democrat

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Will the Supreme Court blunt the Voting Rights Act?

Instant Editorial: A gunshot in Memphis

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