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Virginia, reproductive act, clean economy act. i will bring the same passion for helping people in solving problems to congress. and i will make history as the first black woman, as you mentioned. that is a perspective that is a long overdue, being had in our delegation. >> we will talk more about. that i was going to end on that question, but it is extraordinary that a black woman has never been elected to congress from virginia. so talk about what that would mean to you? >> first of all, as someone's great grandfather had to take a literacy test and find three white men do vouch for him just...

People democratic party the party of slavery, kkk. poll tax and literacy test and now party of it dem covid. they are perpetuate victimhood among people of my complex claiming we can't vote. we had the highest voter turnout in history by the most legitimate election according to the democratic party but somehow voting rights are in jeopardy. they can't produce one person who hasn't been able to voted. this is the same party of limitless abortion. that celebrates it as reproductive justice. there is no justice in killing the innocent and this president is the most radically pro-abortion preside...

Something as simple as equal access to the voting booth. lewis suffered a cracked skull on that day, which became known as bloody sunday. lewis spoke about the struggle during his address to the democratic convention in 2012. >> not too long ago people stood in unmovable lines. they had to pass a so-called literacy test. pay a poll tax. on one occasion a man was asked to tap the number in a bar of soap. on another occasion, one was asked to count the jellybeans in a jar, all to keep them from casting their ballot. i've seen this before. i lived this before. too many people struggled, suffered,...

Action. >> it was the 31st of august in 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse in indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. we was met in indianola by policeman, highway patrolman, and they allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. after we had taken this test and started back, we was held up by the city police and the state highway patrolman and carried back to indianola, where the bus driver was charged that day with driving a bus the wrong color. >> dr. blaine, that was 57 years ago, when fannie lou hamer was