Some paid the ultimate price to enact voting rights. Their survivors see America turning backward
Survivors say the ruling and rapid redistricting erased protections their relatives died to win, including a law that once safeguarded minority voting rights.
- The Supreme Court has effectively dismantled the Voting Rights Act of 1965 through a series of decisions over the past dozen years, prompting survivors of civil rights martyrs to question if their family members' sacrifices were in vain.
- Families of activists like Vernon Dahmer, killed by the Klan for paying poll taxes for Black residents, and Denise McNair, who died in a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, have long tracked voting rights struggles.
- Following the court's April ruling, Republican-led state legislatures eliminated majority-Black congressional districts. Lisa McNair, 61, said she is "physically sick" about these judicial and legislative actions.
- Anthony Liuzzo, son of Viola Liuzzo who died in 1965, expressed relief his mother is not here to see voting rights eroded. He said the sacrifices made feel "done in vain."
- Cassie Schwerner, executive director of Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, said her family has followed voting rights through ups and downs since the 2013 decision. Survivors remain committed to fighting for equality.
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Their loved ones paid the ultimate price in the name of voting rights. But they’re not giving up.
It's been six decades since the Voting Rights Act was enacted. Today, as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the sacrifices of those who died for that landmark law are in question.
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Some paid the ultimate price to enact voting rights. Their survivors see America turning backward
It's been six decades since the Voting Rights Act was enacted. Today, as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the sacrifices of those who died for that landmark law are in question.
Not Just a Southern Issue: Advocates Say SCOTUS Voting Rights Decision Has Already Started to Reshape Black Political Power – Free Press of Jacksonville
OAKLAND POST — Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, constitutional amendments expanded Black citizenship and voting rights across the South, leading to dramatic increases in Black political representation. But those gains were quickly met with violent backlash and the rise of Jim Crow laws designed to suppress Black voting through poll taxes, literacy tests, and other “race-neutral” restrictions. By Edward Henderson, California Black Medi…
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