… be how we could preserve all of the other freedoms and opportunities promised and gained in that movement and throughout history. So I wanted to become a lawyer just because The Voting Rights act, even at that point in the late nineties, had been so weakened. I wanted to make it strong and be a part of reauthorizing section five in the early two thousands and all of that. And then the 2000 election happened. (04:24–04:29)
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Asserts that the Voting Rights Act was weakened by the late 1990s.
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