The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the pinnacle of a struggle that had gone on for decades, indeed, for centuries. It was a struggle marked by bloodshed, intimidation, violence, lynching, imprisonment, sacrifice, and death. It was a struggle for Black people in America to secure the basic dignity of citizenship, self-determination, and the right to participate in the governance of their own communities and lives. The passage of the Voting Rights …
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