Delores Quintyne recalls the years she grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. Later, Quintyne and her husband, Irwin, moved to Amityville and became active with civil rights groups in registering Blacks to vote. Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.

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