in the form of legislation like the Civil Rights Act and most importantly the voting rights nineteen sixty but

thousand and six we voted ninety eight to zero to reauthorize the voting rights act after

for the Voting Rights Act, that's under attack right now.

forty years after barbara jordan fought to extend the voting rights act it's

Fifty years ago the Voting Rights Act was signed into law.

society would have finally gotten they're voting rights act nnnnn

and opportunity.

voters he applauded when the voting rights act was gutted and said the lost protections were outdated and

this serrated a key provision of the voting rights act in twenty thirteen many

Generations of Americans fought and marched and organized and prayed, to expand the circle of freedom

found ourselves at home watching a history channel special and it was about Rosa Parks and civil rights animal

of the voting rights act no one outside the local community is likely ever

I came of age as the Civil Rights Movement was beginning to not only change laws but change hearts.

They never gave up and they never backed down.

right to be left alone is the most prized the civilized man let

poor people, and young people from one end of our country to the other.