But what they won became the inheritance of every American. You can see that inheritance here in Texas. You can see that inheritance in this room. It is the reason Barbara Jordan went to Congress. The Voting Rights Act put black voters in Houston on the rolls in numbers the state had never allowed before. And it sent black Texans to the state House for the first time in generations. And one of them is here today. Our living legend, an I, Representative Sinfronia Thompson, who is Dean. (03:20–03:28)
CLAIM
Asserts that the Voting Rights Act significantly increased black voter registration in Houston.
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