voting rights

The order directs federal agencies to expand access to voter registration and election information.

Obama called the Senate filibuster a relic of Jim Crow segregation and said it should be abolished if that's what it takes to pass such a law.

The private funeral occurred Thursday in Atlanta after nearly a week of mourning that began in his birthplace in Alabama.

Laramie's Louisa Gardner Swain became the first woman to vote in a Wyoming election the following year.