It is this upcoming renewal date that has many Black folks worried. Yet, since the Voting Rights Act does not grant African Americans the right to vote, even its unlikely failure to be extended would not result in Blacks being stripped of that right. The Fifteenth and Nineteenth constitutional amendments uphold this right and are permanent unless they are repealed by three-fourths (thirty-eight) of the states.
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