Voting Rights – We're Back in the Early 1960s – Saddle Up

Voting Rights – We're Back in the Early 1960s – Saddle Up

I watched my parents go to the polls to vote in the early 1960s. They had to recite the preamble to the constitution while ignorant and illiterate white people waltzed right in. Racists poll workers had jars of jelly beans. Black voters had to guess how many. Then the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. The Voting Rights Act provided federal oversight to prevent discriminatory practices, enabling...