The Voting Rights Act of 1965 became a federal law in direct response to local and state governments in the United States denying African American citizens the right to vote due to the color of their skin. The local and state governments were acting in defiance of the Constitution. Since the initial piece of legislation…

  To the editor: I am in fifth grade at Greenville Elementary in Greenville, Pennsylvania. I have adopted your state as a class project. I will be doing a report and other projects to learn more about your state. It would be helpful if you could print this letter in your newspaper. I could use…