Southern Coalition for Social Justice’s Chris Shenton on the gutting of the Voting Rights Act

By: Clayton Henkel

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: May 11, 2026

Words: 212

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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One of the greatest achievements of the American Civil Rights movement was the enactment more than 60 years ago of a law known as the Voting Rights Act. Though it had several provisions, the basic objective of the law was simple – it was to eliminate centuries of deep-seated racial discrimination that had infected and polluted U.S. elections by assuring that all the nation’s citizens had an opportunity to be full participants in …

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