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Voting Rights Act: 45 years later
Posted: 08.06.2010 at 3:58 PM
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Shiloh Baptist Church is known as ground zero in the Albany Movement and was often the place where activists would meet to organize their demonstrations.
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About a dozen people gathered outside the Government Center to talk about the Voting Rights Act.

As the Georgia gets ready to vote for runoff elections on Tuesday, an important milestone in voting rights was commemorated Friday in Albany.

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