G. Gabrielle Starr, president of Pomona College (CA), writes: When the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, my grandmother had a new way to speak, nearly 70 years into her life. As a child in the 1970s and ’80s, I always knew when it was Election Day. My grandma got dressed in her Sunday best, put on her black shoes, hoisted her hard, black pocketbook, adjusted her hat, and waited by the door for my father to drive her to the polls. She never missed an election.