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voting rights with men a decade later.  A monument to suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst stands outside the Houses of Parliament in London [Dan Kitwood/Getty Images] ## 1950s onwards: Mass protests and civil disobedience
Voting Rights Act, [prompting Republicans in a number of Southern states](https://www.npr.org/2026/06/03/nx-s1-5845082/supreme-court-alabama-redistricting) to redraw congressional maps to diminish or eliminate majority-Black districts that have elected Black members of Congress. The second major
ruling government’s abuses from the pulpit, was shot dead in 1980 while celebrating mass, the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) announced its uprising from the mountains and jungles. The ensuing [civil