WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER CIVIL RIGHTS ACT?..

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1965 Voting Rights Act 1866 Voting Rights Act Jim Crow Laws Reconstruction Acts black Americans and Democrats Democrats and the Klan anti-slavery the 14th Amendment the Constitution

The question of voting "rights" has become a trigger for a lot of people in America these days. The Voting Rights Act [VRA] of 1965 has been the trophy of the Civil Rights Movement while seemingly never asking what has been the true benefit of the VRA of 1965? And why is the importance of the VRA of 1866 been memoryholed?

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