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On the recordMarch 11, 2019
Before the Voting Rights Act, the state of voting rights in the Deep South was, I have described, abysmal.
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James A. Lewis
Democratic · Illinois

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John Lewis describes the dire voting rights situation before the Voting Rights Act.

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