Sixty years of the Voting Rights Act: progress and pitfalls
We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce the goals that the VRA was meant to achie...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Oxford
2024
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