Cite as: 570 U. S. ____ (2013) 15 Opinion of the Court White Alabama 69.2 Georgia 62.[6] Louisiana 80.5 Mississippi 69.9 75.7 South Carolina Virginia 61.1 1965 Black 19.3 27.4 31.6 6.7 37.3 Gap 49.9 35.2 48.9 63.2 38.4 2004 White Black 73.8 72.9 63.5 64.2 75.1 71.1 72.3 76.1 74.4 71.1 Gap 0.9 -0.7 4.0 -3.8 3.3 38.3 22.8 68.2 10.8 57.4 See S. Rep. No. 109–295, p. 11 (2006); H. R. Rep. No. 109– 478, at 12. The 2004 figures come from the Census Bureau. Census Bureau data from the most recent election indicate that African-American voter turnout exceeded white voter turnout in five of the six States originally covered by §5, with a gap in the sixth State of less than one half of one percent. See Dept. of Commerce, Census Bureau, Reported Voting and Registration, by Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin, for States (Table 4b). The preclearance statistics are also illuminating. In the first decade after enactment of §5, the Attorney General objected to 14.2 percent of proposed voting changes. H. R Rep. No. 109–478, at 22. In the last decade before reenactment, the Attorney General objected to a mere 0.16 percent. S. Rep. No. 109–295, at 13. There is no doubt that these improvements are in large part because of the Voting Rights Act. The Act has proved immensely successful at redressing racial discrimination and integrating the voting process. See §2(b)(1), 120 Stat. 577. During the “Freedom Summer” of 1964, in Philadelphia, Mississippi, three men were murdered while working in the area to register African-American voters. See United States v. Price, 383 U. S. 787, 790 (1966). On “Bloody Sunday” in 1965, in Selma, Alabama, police beat