1965 US Voting Rights Act Impact on Black and Black Versus White Infant Death Rates in Jim Crow States, 1959–1980 and 2017–2021

Author:

Rushovich Tamara1ORCID,Nethery Rachel C.1,White Ariel1,Krieger Nancy1

Affiliation:

1. Tamara Rushovich and Nancy Krieger are with the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Rachel C. Nethery is with the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Ariel White is with the Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Abstract

Objectives. To investigate the impact of the US Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 on Black and Black versus White infant deaths in Jim Crow states. Methods. Using data from 1959 to 1980 and 2017 to 2021, we applied difference-in-differences methods to quantify differential pre–post VRA changes in infant deaths in VRA-exposed versus unexposed counties, controlling for population size and social, economic, and health system characteristics. VRA-exposed counties, identified by Section 4, were subject to government interventions to remove existing racist voter suppression policies. Results. Black infant deaths in VRA-exposed counties decreased by an average of 11.4 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.7, 21.0) additional deaths beyond the decrease experienced by unexposed counties between the pre-VRA period (1959–1965) and the post-VRA period (1966–1970). This translates to 6703 (95% CI = 999.6, 12 348) or 17.5% (95% CI = 3.1%, 28.1%) fewer deaths than would have been experienced in the absence of the VRA. The equivalent differential changes were not significant among the White or total population. Conclusions. Passage of the VRA led to pronounced reductions in Black infant deaths in Southern counties subject to government intervention because these counties had particularly egregious voter suppression practices. ( Am J Public Health. 2024;114(3):300–308. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307518 )

Publisher

American Public Health Association

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