The Supreme Court issued a ruling yesterday in Louisiana v. Callais that renders Louisana’s voting map invalid and effectively guts the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting and called for federal oversight to prevent states with histories of disenfranchisement from enacting discriminatory election laws.
Here are five books to help you understand the background of the Voting Rights Act and the ways this ruling, the result of a decades-long effort by conservatives, will change the landscape of American democracy.
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