Background
The event that led to population growth slowing in Louisiana.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
The name of the case that deemed section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.
What is Shelby County Vs. Holder?
The population that would most be affected by the redistricting after the 2010 census.
What are African Americans?
The President that signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The year of the census that reduced the amount of U.S representatives in Louisiana.
When was 2010?
The Federal survey that determined Louisiana would lose a representative within the US House of Representatives.
What is the Census?
As a result of the Shelby County Vs. Holder case, this section of the Voting Rights Act was deemed unconstitutional.
What is section 4(b)?
The political party that would benefit most from reducing the number of representatives from majority African American districts.
Who is the Republican Party?
The year in which the Voting Rights Act was signed into law.
When was 1965?
The year in which Governor Jindal signed the new maps into law.
When was 2011?
The number of US representatives that Louisiana was reduced to after the Census.
What is six?
Name of the type of Gerrymandering that discriminated against minority groups.
What is Racial Gerrymandering?
The governor that signed the congressional maps into law.
Who is Governor Bobby Jindal?
Prohibited election practices that denied this type of American right.
What is the right to vote?
The year in which population growth started to slow due to Hurricane Katrina hitting.
When was 2005?
The number of congressional districts that African Americans are fighting to receive.
What is two?
The two levels at which districts affect legislative representation.
What is the State and Congressional representation?
The Louisiana Secretary of State that was sued by the plaintiffs in this case.
Who is Kyle Ardion?
Provided Federal oversight to states that had had this type of history.
What are discriminatory voting practices?
The year in which the plaintiffs brought the suit that claimed the new districts maps violated the Voting Rights Act.
When was 2018?
The name for the way the districts were formed to reduce the amount of African American populations.
What is Gerrymandered?
The Attorney General under Barack Obama that was sued in the Shelby County Vs. Holden case.
Who is Eric H. Holder?
The Attorney General who was involved in the federal preclearance of the new district map.
Who is William P. Barr?
The law was originally written to last this long.
What is five years?
This was the year the case was mutually dismissed.
When was 2020?