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Obama: 50 Years After Voting Rights Act, We Still Have Work To Do

Obama: 50 Years After Voting Rights Act, We Still Have Work To Do

  On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law in the United States to ensure that African Americans would no longer be denied the right to vote on the local and state level. In order to commemorate the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, on Thursday, President Barack Obama wrote…

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