"When the Supreme Court overturned that part of LBJ’s Voting Rights Act, that same day Mississippi and Alabama and North Carolina and Texas all announced that they were moving ahead, immediately, with new restrictions on voting. Restrictions they had wanted to institute before but they had been blocked by the old voting rights law that banned any changes that would be too racist, too racially discriminatory in their impact. With that law out of the way they went ahead with those changes on the first day they could." - Rachel Maddow, U.S. civil rights legacy tested 50 years after ‘Freedom Summer’
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