One day before President Lyndon Johnson, signed the historic voting rights act, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., held a press conference at The White House on August 5th, 1965. Ironically… on the holiday celebrating his birth.. the fight to strengthen voting rights likely will fizzle during a planned senate vote tomorrow.
We look a the role Dr. King played in getting the 1965 voting rights act passed and why the political clock appears to be turning back.
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Dr. Ravi Perry, Chair, Political Science Department, Howard University
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Rev. Alvin Herring, Executive Director, Faith In Action