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Alabama back in 1965. these peaceful demonstrators were trampled and beaten while they made a statement about equal voting rights for all americans. the man seen here was beaten on the head with a billy club. his skull was fractured and he sustained three fractures. congressman lewis fought to end the days of poll taxes and literacy tests at the voting booth. today he is fighting to make sure those protections stand. >> we've come too far. we made too much progress to go back. the literacy test may be gone. how many bubbles in a bar of soap, how many beans in a jar may be gone. the people are ...

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Would hear it in the city. you could act like you were somewhere in alaska, but now today you can say something in alaska, we hear it here is newt playing to the old crowd, food stamps, detroit, all the code, right? and we are going to have a literacy test again. all that stuff -- >> the part about the literacy test absolutely surprised me and disappointed me, chris, because i remember a newt gingrich back in the '80s and '90s who was trying to separate the republican party from this image that it had of attracting racists. in the 1980s he supported sanctions against the apartheid government o...