It used to be that literacy tests and poll taxes kept black voters from the ballot box. We examine the voting restrictions that made the Voting Rights Act necessary. But voter suppression didn’t end once the Voting Rights Act became law. Alabama had a literacy test and a shockingly low number of black voters registered in the 1960s and 1970s. The Voting Rights Act is often called a “crown jewel” of the civil rights movement.

Source: Huffington Post December 17, 2018 14:15 UTC