Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 95 years ago today, tennessee ratified the 19th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Clearing the way for women to vote. It would be half a century before a similar guarantee was given to africanamericans. For decades, some states barred entry to the ballot box. Intimidation, threats, burdens, poll taxes, tricky application procedures were on the benign end. The threat of sudden violence, murder was at the other end of the scale. Now, 50 years later, plenty of americans are prepared to let the guarantees of the voting right acts from the one it was in 1995. Randall pinkston has more. This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong. When president Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights abbing. He called it a monumental law. Johnson pushed the bill through congress. The struggle was proseeded by another battle. This was known as bloody sunday, it outraged the nation. Reporter a few weeks after bloody sund
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The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. As we meditate on all the blessings of life, we especially pray for the blessing of peace in our lives and in our world. Our fervent prayer, o god is that people will learn to live together in reconciliation and respect so that the terrors of war and violence will be no more. As you have created each person, we pray that you would guide our hearts and minds that every person of every place and background might focus on your great gift of life and so learn to live in unity. May your special blessings be upon the members of this assembly and the important, sometimes difficult, work they do. Give them wisdom and charity that they might Work Together for the common good. May all that is done this day in the peoples house be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journ
Those individuals who came before us and work sod tirelessly to make a difference and create Voting Rights equal. It is truly a privilege for me personally to stand before you as congress recognizes these brave men and women and the historical significance of those marches that forever changed the direction of our great nation. I thank the gentlelady, representative sewell of alabama, for highlighting these Historic Events and urge my colleagues to support h. R. 431. With that, i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentlewoman from alabama is recognized. Ms. Sewell i rise in strong support of h. R. 431 and yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman is recognized. Ms. Sewell thank you, mr. Speaker. I want to thank the gentleman from michigan for joining me on the floor today to support h. R. 43. I have enjoyed our bipartisan working relationship on the House Financial Services committee and i am please
Scandal from tiger to gm, how damage control is done. Enjoy the rest of your afternoon. We will see you next time. [applause] thank you, both. It has been a pleasure. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] you are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming of American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter at cspan history. For information on our schedule of incoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. On wednesday, february 11, members of the u. S. House of representatives introduced a bill on the floor to award a congressional gold medal to the participants in the march selma to montgomery Voting Rights marches street next, a debate. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today in support of this very important bill, h. R. 431, a bipartisan bill to award a congressional gold medal to the foot so