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50 years later, the Civil Rights Act would not pass Today
This July 2, 1964, file photo shows President Lyndon Baines Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo, File)
For example, since 2010, 22 Republican-controlled states have passed restrictions on voting because this is their only path to victory under their current platform. The country is browning, voters of color are on the upswing, and the GOP is chasing a dwindling demographic of aggrieved white voters.
Voting rights once enjoyed bipartisan support until Obama came to town. But now, the GOP support for voting rights is nowhere to be found.
Even Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi), who owes black folks for his recent primary victory against the Tea Party onslaught, supported last year’s Supreme Court decision that defanged the Voting Rights Act. Cochran and all of his GOP colleagues had voted to reauthorize the law in 2006.
http://thegrio.com/2014/07/04/50-years-later-the-civil-rights-act-would-not-pass/
50 years later, the Civil Rights Act would not pass Today
This July 2, 1964, file photo shows President Lyndon Baines Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo, File)
For example, since 2010, 22 Republican-controlled states have passed restrictions on voting because this is their only path to victory under their current platform. The country is browning, voters of color are on the upswing, and the GOP is chasing a dwindling demographic of aggrieved white voters.
Voting rights once enjoyed bipartisan support until Obama came to town. But now, the GOP support for voting rights is nowhere to be found.
Even Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi), who owes black folks for his recent primary victory against the Tea Party onslaught, supported last year’s Supreme Court decision that defanged the Voting Rights Act. Cochran and all of his GOP colleagues had voted to reauthorize the law in 2006.
http://thegrio.com/2014/07/04/50-years-later-the-civil-rights-act-would-not-pass/
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