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Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that's still shaping American politics

  • Written by Julian Maxwell Hayter, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
imageA group of voters lining up outside the polling station, a small Sugar Shack store, on May 3, 1966, in Peachtree, Ala., after the Voting Rights Act was passed the previous year. MPI/Getty Images

For nearly 60 years, conservatives have been trying to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. As a...

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