The Frontline for Voting Rights Is the Rural South

The Frontline for Voting Rights Is the Rural South

By Sarah Alexander Melotte More than 60 years ago, the rural South was the epicenter of voting rights organizing for Black Americans. Marches and government violence in Selma, Alabama, turned the nation’s attention to the violence Black voters faced, inciting the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), a signature accomplishment of the Civil Rights movement. Now, the Supreme Court has weakened these legal protections, and minority voters…