CSPAN3 Politics And Public Policy Today June 22, 2024
About the vote, and he felt the vote was the ability to get somebody to change their circumstances. Martin hraouter king comes to the white house and says to johnson, we need a Voting Rights act, and he said, martin, i agree with you, but i cant do it this year i have all this other Great Society legislation to push, and then many people are beaten and nearly die marching for Voting Rights and johnson is shrewd enough to understand that the country was outraged and he needed to start pushing this, so basically the Justice Department started to draw up a Voting Rights bill before selma, but joh...