Houstonians worry new laws will deter voters who don’t recall the hard-won fight for voting rights

Sylvia Ann Miller-Scarborough remembers when people of color had to pay a poll tax to vote in Houston. Miller-Scarborough worries that much of the hard-won progress she’s seen in more than a half-century of voting in the largest county in Texas could be erased by Republican lawmakers. Harris County, a Democratic stronghold in a state long dominated by Republicans, is one of the most diverse places in Texas, where the minority population has been growing for decades.