Despite progress made after Voting Rights Act made law 50 years ago, there still remains much to do: Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Fifty years ago on Thursday, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. It became arguably one of the country’s most influential pieces of legislation, banning discrimination in voting. The stroke of Johnson’s pen on August 6, 1965 allowed previously disenfranchised Americans to exercise their constitutional right to vote. A year earlier, Johnson…