Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130218:22:40:00
First the civil rights and then voting rights act. one was public accommodations. and then the voting rights act was an attempt to give real power to black people by saying if you want power down the road in any area, you got to vote. and you couldn't vote in the south. >> right. >> because, what was the reason most people were kept from voting -- the reason for the voting rights act? what were the tricks used? >> it was the poll takeses where you had to pay to vote. you had grandfather clauses that said that certain people could vote if they had done something -- they had land at a particular...
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