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By Molly Rugg, Paralegal, ACLU

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50 Years After MLK's Selma March, We're Still Fighting For Voting Rights

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate how vitally important it was that black Americans be able to exercise their fundamental right to vote. In Selma, people died, suffered bodily injury, and went to jail for that right. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law a few months after the Selma march – but we're still fighting voter suppression on many fronts half a century later.
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Putting the Brakes on Voter Suppression in North Carolina

Voters get to decide who represents them, but elected officials don't get to decide which eligible voters can and can't vote. Right?