On this edition of “Closer Look,” longtime voting rights activist and author Gregory Moore talks about modern-day battles against voter suppression laws and the ties that those battles have to the nation’s history of grappling with voting rights.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, seemingly outlawing decades of discriminatory voting practices mostly coming from southern states post-Civil War, including poll tax and literacy tests.
However, in 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Shelby County v. Holder that a key section of the act was unconstitutional, with many voters nationwide losing protection in the process.
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