Forty years ago, President Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act, which abolished discriminatory barriers designed to limit minority participation in elections.
TechnoLawyer member and voting rights lawyer Edward Still served as a source for and was quoted in a recent article in the Tuscaloosa News commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
In particular, the article states: "Voting rights attorney Ed Still of Birmingham called the 1965 law that outlawed poll taxes and voting tests the first generation of laws needed to break the white hold on voter registration in Alabama and the South, where blacks often made up 25 percent of the population. 'The second generation of issues came in the early 1970s and those were over trying to dismantle at-large [election] districts,' Still said last week." Read the entire article (free registration required).
You can learn more about Ed Still and his practice (he also handles employment and civil rights matters) on his site Votelaw.com.
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