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Press Robinson, who years ago mounted a legal fight to become the first Black person elected to a Louisiana school board, was on the losing side of the Supreme Court case weakening the Voting Rights Act.
BATON ROUGE Press Robinson had to show he could read, before he was allowed to become the first member of his family to vote in the 1950s. In the 1970s, he filed a trailblazing lawsuit that cleared t…
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- Source: The Washington Post
- Byline: Justin Jouvenal
- Published: 03 May 2026 13:32
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