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Women's Suffrage was won without voting. Civil Rights was won with turnout among black people between 25% and 7% per state. It's not voting that moves things in the right direction.
And remember. Both the Ds and the Rs had to give ground to prevent the civil rights movement from getting out of their control. As soon as they had it appeased, both the Ds and Rs co-architected the war on drugs and heavy "anti-crime" work to criminalize black people. It's not a coincidence that prison population skyrocketed immediately after the civil rights era, targeted black people primarily, and haven't come down since regardless of who is in office.