No right was more important for Black people in the 1960s than the right to vote. Ending segregation and discrimination was vitally important, but any gains made would be lost if the right to vote were not secured.
For the 80 years between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement, Blacks in the South (and many times in the…
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