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