John Archibald

Alabama Media Group

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John Archibald is a columnist for the Alabama Media Group, which publishes the Birmingham News, Huntsville Times and Mobile Press Register.

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The 1965 Voting Rights Act paved the way for black voters in states where they'd been denied the franchise, despite the Bill of Rights and the Civil War.

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