1965 Voting Rights Act

On this week’s episode, hosts April Dawson and Irv Joyner are joined by Attorney Tomas Lopez, who serves as the Director of Democracy North Carolina, and Professor Jarvis Hall of the North Carolina Central University Political Science Department. This week’s discussion will entail an in-depth discussion surrounding the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted African Americans the right to vote, and the role in which the 1965 Voting Rights Act played in furthering such right.