Senator Edward Kennedy is being remembered in the South for his decades of work on civil rights. Historians and civil rights leaders say Kennedy carried on the legacy of his brothers and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. after they were assassinated.

The Justice Department has rejected Georgia’s attempt to require prospective voters in the state to provide proof of citizenship. Gov. Sonny Perdue signed the bill last month making Georgia the second state in the nation to require newly registering voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before casting a ballot. Under the Voting Rights Act, the state was required to get preclearance for the measure from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Thousands of Georgians and South Carolinians have already cast their ballots either in advance, or by absentee. That includes Ada Nettles of Darlington, South Carolina.