⟳ Репост от The Journal of the Civil War Era
With today’s Supreme Court decision drawing attention to the Voting Rights Act, we’re revisiting a 2020 #AHAPerspectives piece by Julian Zelizer: “The right to vote is the most basic element of a healthy democracy… we have done immense damage in dismantling it.”
So Far Away from 1965 – AHAThe 1965 Voting Rights Act worked but its promise has never been fulfilled.www.historians.org