'The goddamndest, toughest voting rights bill': Critical Race Theory and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

The author utilized Critical Race Theory (CRT) to examine the passage of the US Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 in an effort to disrupt the simplistic, uncritical understandings of the US Civil Rights Movement common to school texts while also arguing for the ongoing importance of the VRA in a time when voting rights for people of color are under attack. The author identified four points of interest convergence in the passage of the VRA and contends that a critical revisionist narrative of the VRA - along with other events and individuals Civil Rights Movement - is necessary to help students and teachers understand the persistence of racism and the limitations of liberalism in addressing racial inequality.