Voting rights are in every American’s interest Manhattan: A century ago, Eastern European Jewish immigrants came to the United States fleeing persecution and seeking the rights and protections of a democracy. My great-grandparents were among them. At the same time, harsh Jim Crow laws, brutal white supremacist violence, exploitative working conditions and a U.S. Congress that refused to act were taking their toll in Black lives and livelihoods. Yet, from factory floors to lunch counters to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, courageous Black Americans reached out to newer Jewish immigrants and to Americans of all backgrounds who believed in our fundamental...