Victory and more bigotry: American politics still influenced by the backlash to Civil Rights legislation
By Julian Maxwell Hayter, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond For nearly 60 years, conservatives have been trying to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. As a scholar of American voting rights, I believe their long game is finally bearing fruit. The 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder seemed to be the death knell for the Voting Rights Act. In that case, the court struck down a portion of the Voting Rights Act that supervised elections in areas with a history of disenfranchisement. The...
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