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As Voting Rights Act ebbs, many Black voters are fired up. Will it change Louisiana elections?

Organizers say turnout could rise as Republicans weigh new district maps and Black voters face a 35% registration increase in Jackson Parish after civil rights gains.

Summary by The Advocate
JONESBORO – It was the mid-1960s, and young Black activists in this blue-collar mill town in central Louisiana were determined to overturn the decades of Jim Crow laws that treated them as second-class citizens.

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The Advocate broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Sunday, October 18, 2026.
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