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Black People Politics : 50 years later, the Civil Rights Act would not pass Today
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And so am I, its a beautiful thing ...
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OMG ... what a speech. President Barack Obama spoke the names of our great historians who made a difference, Marching, so we may Run, so our children can Soar!
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'No matter what it takes': Selma remembers
Selma (United States) (AFP) - They paid for black Americans' right to vote with their blood and bruises. Now they remember.
As President Barack Obama said on the eve of his visit to Selma, Alabama: the battle for civil rights is not ancient history.
"The people who were there are still around, you can talk to them," America's first black president said Friday.
He meant people like 70-year-old retired firefighter Henry Allen, who five decades ago took part in history ...
http://news.yahoo.com/no-matter-takes-selma-remembers-213323845.html
A rights activist poses for a picture on March 5, 2015 in Selma, Alabama, in front of a mural depicting the attack on peaceful civil rights activists by police in Selma 50 years before (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
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'No matter what it takes': Selma remembers
Selma (United States) (AFP) - They paid for black Americans' right to vote with their blood and bruises. Now they remember.
As President Barack Obama said on the eve of his visit to Selma, Alabama: the battle for civil rights is not ancient history.
"The people who were there are still around, you can talk to them," America's first black president said Friday.
He meant people like 70-year-old retired firefighter Henry Allen, who five decades ago took part in history ...
http://news.yahoo.com/no-matter-takes-selma-remembers-213323845.html
A rights activist poses for a picture on March 5, 2015 in Selma, Alabama, in front of a mural depicting the attack on peaceful civil rights activists by police in Selma 50 years before (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
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... Correct Mr. President, because the hard fought gains of 50 years ago are slowly eroding away through Black voter apathy or non-engagement with the political landscape, helped by the GOP and the Supreme Court's stand against those rights ...
In Selma, Obama calls for restoration of Voting Rights Act protections
... Speaking at the base of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, 50 years after police there brutally beat protesters demanding access to the ballot, Obama questioned how Americans today could turn out in such small numbers to vote and tolerate passage of new state and local laws designed to make it harder for people to do so.
The Voting Rights Act, “the culmination of so much blood and sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence, stands weakened, its future subject to partisan rancor,” Obama said, the steel bridge looming behind him ...
“How can that be?” he asked. “The Voting Rights Act was one of the crowning achievements of our democracy, the result of Republican and Democratic efforts ...
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-selma-speech-20150307-story.html#page=1
By CHRISTI PARSONScontact the reporter
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... Correct Mr. President, because the hard fought gains of 50 years ago are slowly eroding away through Black voter apathy or non-engagement with the political landscape, helped by the GOP and the Supreme Court's stand against those rights ... In Selma, Obama calls for restoration of Voting Rights Act protections
... Speaking at the base of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, 50 years after police there brutally beat protesters demanding access to the ballot, Obama questioned how Americans today could turn out in such small numbers to vote and tolerate passage of new state and local laws designed to make it harder for people to do so.
The Voting Rights Act, “the culmination of so much blood and sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence, stands weakened, its future subject to partisan rancor,” Obama said, the steel bridge looming behind him ...
“How can that be?” he asked. “The Voting Rights Act was one of the crowning achievements of our democracy, the result of Republican and Democratic efforts ...
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-selma-speech-20150307-story.html#page=1
By CHRISTI PARSONScontact the reporter
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50 Years After Selma, African Americans In Alabama Say: ‘Hell No, We’re Not Going Back’
SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA — When Dr. Earl Cunningham first tried to register to vote in his hometown of Montevallo in 1953, he was asked to pay a poll tax of $1.50, answer obscure questions about the state constitution and have a white employer vouch for his character. After he did all this successfully, the county clerk told him to go buy his own pencil at a shop down the street in order to fill out the necessary forms.
“Then you know what he told me?” said Cunningham. “He said, ‘Sign your name, if you can.'”
Decades later, in 2013, Cunningham sat in the front row of the US Supreme Court as a majority of the justices decided to gut the law that put an end to those restrictive practices: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Represented by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, he was one of the lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which argued that federal protection was still needed for states and counties — like Shelby — with a history of racism and voter suppressions ...
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2...urt-voting-rights-act-hell-no-not-going-back/
BY ALICE OLLSTEINPOSTED ON MARCH 7, 2015 AT 12:13 PM UPDATED: MARCH 7, 2015 AT 2:56 PM
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50 Years After Selma, African Americans In Alabama Say: ‘Hell No, We’re Not Going Back’
SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA — When Dr. Earl Cunningham first tried to register to vote in his hometown of Montevallo in 1953, he was asked to pay a poll tax of $1.50, answer obscure questions about the state constitution and have a white employer vouch for his character. After he did all this successfully, the county clerk told him to go buy his own pencil at a shop down the street in order to fill out the necessary forms.
“Then you know what he told me?” said Cunningham. “He said, ‘Sign your name, if you can.'”
Decades later, in 2013, Cunningham sat in the front row of the US Supreme Court as a majority of the justices decided to gut the law that put an end to those restrictive practices: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Represented by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, he was one of the lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which argued that federal protection was still needed for states and counties — like Shelby — with a history of racism and voter suppressions ...
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2...urt-voting-rights-act-hell-no-not-going-back/
BY ALICE OLLSTEINPOSTED ON MARCH 7, 2015 AT 12:13 PM UPDATED: MARCH 7, 2015 AT 2:56 PM
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