Did Richmond violate the Voting Rights Act by adding thousands of White residents? The historic Supreme Court case foreshadowed today’s gerrymandering fights.
. The VRA outlawed racial discrimination in voting, outlining that states could not limit voters’ rights based on their race.
“After all, Richmond was the Queen of the Confederacy,” Dennis said. “Richmond was special. And, for many Whites, that specialness did not include having Blacks attain political power.”secret meetings The activist began his campaign to sue the city for violating the Voting Rights Act in 1971, but local civil rights lawyers and branches of the NAACP “all turned him down,” Dennis said, or gave him the runaround. “He was Curtis Holt. He was known to be an agitator of sorts,” Dennis said.
“He says, ‘I haven’t got a penny to my name, and you boys obviously don’t have any money either, and this suit is going to be an expensive suit to pursue,’” Coates, now 79, recounted.
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