The Voting Rights Act Part 2: Have We Forgotten Why the Voting Rights Act Exists? – Footnotes

  1. Rothstein, R. (2017). The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. W. W. Norton & Company.
  2. Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U.S.C. § 10301 (1965).
    https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/voting-rights-act
  3. History.com Editors. (n.d.). Selma to Montgomery march.
    https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march
  4. U.S. Department of Justice. (n.d.). History of federal voting rights laws.
    https://www.justice.gov/crt/history-federal-voting-rights-laws
  5. Library of Congress. (n.d.). Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
    https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html
  6. Shelby County v. Holder. (2013). Oyez.
    https://www.oyez.org/cases/2012/12-96
  7. Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. (2021). Oyez.
    https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/19-1257
  8. Lyndon B. Johnson. (1965). The American Promise speech.
    https://www.lbjlibrary.org/learn/about-lbj/american-promise