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The new AG announced plans to double enforcement staff to protect the right to vote.

Readers share their views in letters to the editor

This list provides answers to 5 key questions about Reconstruction.

Early Years and Civil War Edmund Randolph Cocke was born at Oakland, one of two Cumberland County plantations owned by his parents, William Armistead Cocke and Elizabeth Randolph Preston Cocke, on March 25, 1841. In 1856 he matriculated at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University). Intellectually gifted but shy and sometimes indolent, Cocke ranked near the bottom of his class during the first of his two years at that institution. Nevertheless, in 1858 the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) accepted him as a transfer student with sophomore standing. During the se...

If the right to vote is fundamental, then it cannot be subject to veto by partisans who benefit from disenfranchisement.