“[Jeff] Sessions was "someone who thinks that the VRA ought not to have ever been in existence" because, for him, it was an "intrusive piece of legislation." Thus, in a move that flipped the Voting Rights Act on its head, his investigation targeted only counties where African Americans had won office.” RacismAmerican HistoryCivil Rights MovementUs HistorySuffrageVoting Rights ActDisenfranchisementJeff Sessions Book:One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Source: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
“The VRA was nevertheless a seismic shift in thought, action, and execution for the U.S. government when compared with the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and its equally enfeebled companion legislation of 1960. Rather than passively waiting for locales to violate the rights of American citizens and then sitting still until those who had been routinely brutalized by this system made a formal complaint, the VRA put the responsibility for adhering to the Constitution onto state and local governments.” RacismAmerican HistoryCivil Rights MovementUs HistorySuffrageVoter SuppressionVoting Rights Act Book:One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Source: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
“Therefore, 2016 was the first federal election in fifty years held without the protection of the Voting Rights Act.” ElectionVoting Rights Act Author:Carol Anderson