Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act being signed into law.

The act is designed to ensure citizenship, due process, equal protection under the law, and the right to vote. It was passed in response to voter suppression in the 1960s.

Decades later, Mississippi’s first Black woman elected to public office since the Reconstruction era says she has conflicted feelings about the time that has passed since then.

"I have mixed emotions," Flonzie Brown Wright said. "We've seen many gains. We've seen some challenges. In the landscape that we're looking at today, we're facing more challenges. I'm afraid there are more to come."

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