Voting Rights Act and the South on trial

[Glory Skales Charity]

How much has the south changed?
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That's the question at the heart of one of the most important cases the supreme court will take up this year.
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The case weighs the fate of one of the most important laws in American history: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A century after the Civil War, Congress created that law to give African Americans the right to vote, not just on paper, but in fact.