The Voting Rights Act Turns 60. Its Future Has Never Looked More Fragile
Khadidah Stone will never forget the day in 2023 she learned that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld voting rights in her home state of Alabama.
She was in a store when her phone buzzed, flooded with messages. “I was standing in the aisle crying,” she recalled. “And the guy at the front of the store was like, ‘Ma’am, are you OK?’”
Stone, 28, was one of the plaintiffs in Allen v. Milligan, arguing that Alabama needed two majority-Black congressional districts to accurately reflect its Black voter population. The court agreed, deciding that a map with one majority-Black district likely violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the crowning achievements of the Civil Rights Movement.
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