Insight: From Alabama, an epic challenge to voting rights – Reuters

June 4, 2012 Posted By: Leave a comment
They argue that this federal "preclearance" obligation, mandated by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, is an outdated ... witnessed dark chapters of racial violence after the Civil War. Lynching continued into the early 1900s.
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