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Voter ID laws: Why black Democrats' fight for the ballot in Mississippi still matters

  • Written by Frederick Knight, Associate Professor of History, Morehouse College
imageAfrican-American children gather around a voter registration sign.Kheel Center/flickr, CC BY

This fall, we are faced with the question of who will become president. And equally important – who can vote?

Over the past decade, Republican lawmakers in more than 20 states have enacted laws making it harder to vote. In the most extreme cases, they...

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