Activists remember Voting Rights Act 56 years later | Afro

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Activists remember Voting Rights Act 56 years later | Afro

By Micha Green D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com Fifty-six years after their heroes celebrated the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, current activists including the Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III and representatives from March on for Voting Rights, highlighted the importance of the legislation that was signed almost six decades ago, […]

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