Road to the VRA:
60 years ago tonight, LBJ spoke before a joint session of Congress to deliver what has become known as his “We Shall Overcome” speech, calling for new federal voting rights laws responding to voter suppression in the South.
60 years ago tonight, LBJ spoke before a joint session of Congress to deliver what has become known as his “We Shall Overcome” speech, calling for new federal voting rights laws responding to voter suppression in the South.
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It happens when you deny history!
It happens when education is sold off piece by piece for profit at the expense of the poor.
It happens when one side knows history and learns to adapts their methods.
It's what happens when the ultra rich win class warfare.
Forced to stand in line for hours, fewer ballot boxes, extreme ID verification, bomb threats, physical intimidation at polling places, running out of ballots, voter registration purges, purposely misdirection of voters to wrong polling places...
"Their cause must be our cause too. Because it's not just Negroes, but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry. and injustice. And we... shall... overcome."
"It never occurred to me that I might have the chance to help the sons of those students and people like them all over this country.”
"But now that I have this chance, I'll let you in on a secret—I mean to use it.”
"We must not and ought not and cannot wait another eight months. We have already waited a hundred years and more. The time for waiting is gone."
https://www.lbjlibrary.org/object/video/american-promise-speech
Republicans are RACISTS!!! All of them because they all support RACISTS. You support a racist or a racist accepting Party, you are a racist. Period!