Born on a bridge: The unfinished fight for voting rights

The right to vote survives because people are willing to defend it.

Selma helped give the nation the Voting Rights Act. Decades later, a lawsuit from Shelby County weakened its protections. What happens when the safeguards won through sacrifice begin to disappear?

In this episode of "This Matters," Bill Britt examines Alabama’s place in the struggle for voting rights and argues that protecting the vote remains a responsibility of citizenship.

Because rights won by one generation still need defenders in the next.

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