'It's going to be an enormous battle': Black college students fight for voting access in Texas
Black students fight for equal access to early voting in rural Texas
Students at the historically black Prairie View A&M University used to be required to complete “residency questionnaires” to prove their eligibility to vote. In the 1990s, some were arrested when they tried to cast ballots, on suspicion of improper voting. Some saw their power diluted when their campus was carved into three districts.
And last year, when county leaders scheduled fewer early-voting hours on the university campus than in whiter communities nearby, they spoke out.The disparity tapped into deep feelings of marginalization and anger over long-standing efforts to keep black voters from the polls.
“Waller County has a very long history of racism,” says political reporter Amy Gardner. “And so the setting and the scene for this particular story is quite fraught.”
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