An excerpt from a 1975 report from the United States Commission on Civil Rights about the Voting Rights Act after ten years.

This excerpt from a report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights provides the commission’s findings on the impact of the Act, the need to renew it, and ways to enhance its authority. The list of recommendations in this report demonstrate that many discriminatory voting conditions still exist.

Citation Information
United States Commission on Civil Rights, excerpt from “The voting rights act, ten years after : a report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/ed8288df8862e935bbf0f74754e96e58.
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Courtesy of University of California via HathiTrust.

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