How the Voting Rights Act reshaped Black representation in Congress - The Washington Post
general 2026/05/02 16:00:58

How the Voting Rights Act reshaped Black representation in Congress - The Washington Post

Source:The Washington Post
Author:Erin Cox, Clara Ence Morse

It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the South after Reconstruction.

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