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Voting Rights Act turns 61, leaders highlight weakened protections

Voting Rights Act turns 61, leaders highlight weakened protections
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Sixty-one years after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, civil rights leaders and politicians in Texas are warning that the law’s protections have been effectively dismantled and that Texas has become ground zero for what comes next. The anniversary this year f...

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