In OTL South Carolina, and I think Mississippi had black majorities at the time that slavery was abolished.
The Reconstructions governments in those states were wholly dependent on black votes.
By various semi legal and wholly illegal means black people were disenfranchised between the 1870s and the 1890s.
By the time the 20th Century Civil Rights act disproportionate numbers of black people had left the South and no states had black majorities. Actual transfer of political power was not, therefore, a consequence of the Voting Rights Act.
WI there had been black majority states in 1965. Would it have been possible to insist on enforce adult suffrage against the local power structure without a lot of difficulties.
The Reconstructions governments in those states were wholly dependent on black votes.
By various semi legal and wholly illegal means black people were disenfranchised between the 1870s and the 1890s.
By the time the 20th Century Civil Rights act disproportionate numbers of black people had left the South and no states had black majorities. Actual transfer of political power was not, therefore, a consequence of the Voting Rights Act.
WI there had been black majority states in 1965. Would it have been possible to insist on enforce adult suffrage against the local power structure without a lot of difficulties.