Back in July 1962, I was in the Deep South, working to register Black voters.  It was a near-hopeless project, given the mass disenfranchisement of the region's Black population that was enforced by Southern law and an occasional dose of white terrorism.  But I learned a lot about voter suppression, which -- despite the breakthrough provided by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- has been revived in recent years by Republicans in the states and in the nation.