How the Voting Rights Act reshaped Black representation in Congress

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ABC News - Politics 4 hours ago • abcnews.com

Black Americans face a new fight for racial representation after justices' Voting Rights Act ruling

A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to dismantle barriers to voting

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Washington Post - Politics 10 hours ago • washingtonpost.com

How the Voting Rights Act reshaped Black representation in Congress

It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the South after Reconstruction.

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