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| Only through the Civil |
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| Rights movement were |
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| African-Americans able to |
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| get legislation passed that |
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| made such voting |
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| restrictions illegal, and |
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| more importantly get the |
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| Federal Government to |
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| enforce the new legislation |
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| in states that had been |
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| disregarding the previous |
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| Constitutional |
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| Amendments for decades. |
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