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Inside The 50-year Campaign to Roll Back the Voting Rights Act

Posted On: Aug 04, 2015

Aug. 4, 2015 | CIVIL RIGHTS | nytimes.com The story of that decades-long battle over the iconic law’s tenets and effects has rarely been told, but in July many of its veteran warriors met in a North Carolina courthouse to argue the legality of a new state voting law that the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School has called one of the “most restrictive since the Jim Crow era.” The decision, which is expected later this year, could determine whether the civil rights movement’s signature achievement is still justified 50 years after its signing, or if the movement itself is finished. Full story...