So, you know, one of the biggest reasons for the Voting Rights act was to stop what was happening in states like Texas and other states throughout the deep South. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, where They persistently would do whatever they could to prevent predominantly black residents from voting. They would. One, there were barriers to voter registration, so they wouldn't allow black residents to register to vote. (04:24–04:33)
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