African Americans still face barriers mostly in the northern states with the current conditions happening today. After the Voting Rights Act was passed Texas took immediate action to once again continue the voter’s identification law. This indicated for anyone who wanted to vote they most prove evidence of identification which mostly impacted African Americans due to not meeting the requirements and would continue to face voting barriers. Which now twelve states required this law it was proving that the “Voting Rights Act had properly changed from first-generation barriers to second-generation barriers to ballot access” (Liptak 59) Texas would be the first state to continue a trend which most states would follow up and continue to bring back
