Voting districts across the US are being redrawn. [Brooke Anderson/TNA] This month saw plans move forward for the elimination of the majority-Black US voting districts. The focus has been on the South, which has a long history of voting rights advocacy following the end of the Civil War, with the 1870 passage of the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote for Black men, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting.