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Civil Rights

May 4, 2006

Voting Rights Act Ensures Democracy's Lifeblood

Forum Column - By Maya Harris - Last year, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of one of the most successful civil rights laws in our nation's history: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. On national news channels across America, we watched original film footage and re-enactments of "Bloody Sunday"- the famous march in Selma, Ala., over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where peaceful civil rights marchers were assaulted by state troopers for daring to demand equal voting rights.

Forum Column

By Maya Harris
      Last year, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of one of the most successful civil rights laws in our nation's history: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. On national news channels across America, we watched original film footage and re-enactments of "Bloody Sunday"- the famous march in Selma, Ala., over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where peaceful civil rights marchers were assaulted by state tro...

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