The recent Supreme Court ruling on Section two of the Voting Right Act of 1965 has struck a blow to voting rights.
That is the belief of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights group.
The Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 decision, siding with a group of self-described “non-African American” voters in a case that many say racially gerrymandered the Louisiana congressional map. That map, they say, is based on race…and not population.
Here in Arkansas, state NAACP leaders will hold an emergency meeting tonight—to determine how they can ward off any such action.
Local Branch president Ivan Whitfield.
Other Civil Rights activists say the Court’s ruling could send the United States back to the Jim Crow era.
