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The right to vote was won.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 became a fact of law.
LBJ did not want to tackle the issue.
It was an election year.
His speech to Congress
"One hundred years, since the Emancipation Proclamation."
"...since equality was promised."
"...The crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice."
Open Your Polling Places to All Your People
The Southern Democratic Party split.
Bob Goodlatte chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has refused to hold hearings on legislation to combat egregious voter discrimination in recent years
August 8, 2016
"This June, we observed the third anniversary of an infamous rather than famous legal milestone: Shelby County v. Holder. This 2013 Supreme Court decision disastrously undermined the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial discrimination and opened up a floodgate of voter suppression. Now, instead of celebrating a half-century of equitable enfranchisement, we are about to face the harshest consequences of its absence. We are ninety-three days away from the first presidential election in fifty years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act."
"It is the 51st anniversary since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965, effectively banning state laws that denied the vote to black and minority voters for decades in Virginia and other southern states. Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down portions of the law that prohibited states from changing local election laws without federal review in the case of Shelby v. Holder."
It is time for Congressman Goodlatte and Congress to honor the demonstrations of the past, and these demonstrations today to stop this widespread abuse. The congressman’s refusal to act for three years is insulting to these young men and women who want to exercise their basic rights under the Constitution.”
http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/na...-cornell-william-brooks-arrested-after-sit-in
2016
Parts of LBJ's speech, still reverberate, today.
"...wrong, deadly wrong."
"...The time for injustice is gone.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 became a fact of law.
LBJ did not want to tackle the issue.
It was an election year.
His speech to Congress
"One hundred years, since the Emancipation Proclamation."
"...since equality was promised."
"...The crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice."
Open Your Polling Places to All Your People
The Southern Democratic Party split.
Bob Goodlatte chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has refused to hold hearings on legislation to combat egregious voter discrimination in recent years
August 8, 2016
"This June, we observed the third anniversary of an infamous rather than famous legal milestone: Shelby County v. Holder. This 2013 Supreme Court decision disastrously undermined the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial discrimination and opened up a floodgate of voter suppression. Now, instead of celebrating a half-century of equitable enfranchisement, we are about to face the harshest consequences of its absence. We are ninety-three days away from the first presidential election in fifty years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act."
"It is the 51st anniversary since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965, effectively banning state laws that denied the vote to black and minority voters for decades in Virginia and other southern states. Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down portions of the law that prohibited states from changing local election laws without federal review in the case of Shelby v. Holder."
It is time for Congressman Goodlatte and Congress to honor the demonstrations of the past, and these demonstrations today to stop this widespread abuse. The congressman’s refusal to act for three years is insulting to these young men and women who want to exercise their basic rights under the Constitution.”
http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/na...-cornell-william-brooks-arrested-after-sit-in
2016
Parts of LBJ's speech, still reverberate, today.
"...wrong, deadly wrong."
"...The time for injustice is gone.
