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The Ballot And American Democracy: One Step Foward One Step Back?

President Johnson and Dr. King seal the deal [Witness for Justice] I graduated from high school just a few months before the monumental Voting ...

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Obama: Congress Must Pass New Voting Rights Act

  [Commentary] First of all, I love John Lewis. And I don’t know where he gets the energy, where he gets the drive, what ...

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Joe Biden: All Other Rights Flow From Voting Rights

Making history–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shown with President Johnson Our task to protect the fundamental right to vote is as critical today as ...

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Fifty Years Later: Recalling Historic And Transformative Civil Rights Act

President Obama Statement by the President on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 In 1964, President Johnson put pen to ...

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Ailing At 50: Republicans Want To Undo Voting Rights Secured In Lyndon Johnson Era

Pennsylvania House Republican, Mike Turzai in 2012– Voter suppression will win us White House [Commentary] Nearly 50 years ago, President Johnson signed the Civil ...

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Deconstructing Marco Rubio’s Nonsensical Anti-Poverty “Agenda”

Rubio — his anti-poverty speech filled with hypocrisy and contradictions [Speaking Truth To Power] Wednesday, on the 50 anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s “War ...

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1963 vs. 2013: From Aggressive Peaceful Activism To Tranquilizing Gradualism

[The View From Washington] “We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no ...