In an age of voter suppression, here's how we're commemorating the Voting Rights Act Ankita Rao
almost 4 years in The guardian
On the 55th anniversary of the landmark law, we’re joining with newsrooms across the US to highlight how access to the ballot remains out of reach
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It’s 55 years to the day since Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act, the first federal legislation designed to protect American voters from Jim Crow-era racism and voter suppression. It gave the US attorney general and US district court of Washington DC the power to strike down local and state laws that could discriminate against voters who might speak another language, or live in minority neighborhoods.
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