Georgia Pastors Warn Black Voting Power Is Under Attack - Capital B News - Atlanta
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One federal lawmaker said the decision “ignores our country’s history of racism and reopens the door to the Jim Crow era.”

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The Rev. Timothy McDonald was a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Perry Elementary School in Brunswick, Georgia, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act into law. Prior to its passage, election officials in the South routinely used blatant discriminatory practices like jelly bean counts and literacy tests to deny Black voters access to […]The post Black Faith Leaders Sound Alarm Over Gutting of Voting Rights Act appeared first on Capital B News - Atlanta.

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