CSPAN Politics Public Policy Today January 24, 2012
the voting rights act, actually going to many states from north carolina, south carolina, alabama and georgia where african americans did not have the full impact. i remember walking miles to allow students to vote. so this is a cause that we have been on a long journey and saddens me we are here again fighting for voter protection as we look to our presidential election. i offer words of barbara jordan who could not have come to congress, sitting in the judiciary committee, she offered these words. i believe hyperbole would not show the solemnness. it is complete and total and said ...