America 250 Voting Rights
FILE - This combination image shows an undated file photo of white civil rights activist from Detroit, Viola Liuzzo, left, who was helping to shuttle black demonstrators between Selma and Montgomery, Ala., and at right, a March 26, 1965, file photo of an Alabama state trooper's car, parked near Liuzzo's car, after she was shot to death in it near Lownsboro, Miss., on route to Montgomery.
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It's been six decades since the Voting Rights Act was enacted. Today, as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the sacrifices of those who died for that landmark law are in question. A series of Supreme Court rulings over the past dozen years, including one in April, has effectively dismantled the law. And that has both angered and saddened family members of those who died to promote equal voting rights. Those emotions come from seeing the reversal of a milestone political victory from decades ago. But they're also committed to keep fighting.