The fight over who gets to vote in the United States goes back to the founders and continues to this day. The battle for women’s suffrage was hard-fought but even more so was the long, often violent struggle to win the right to vote for African Americans. The passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 resulted in millions of citizens receiving the franchise for the first time, but since then there have been constant attempts to undermine the law and deny the ballot to those for whom blood was shed so they could make their voices heard. Here are articles and Bill Moyers conversations that chronicle the story of voting rights and the ongoing, perpetual efforts to tear them away.