Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20210611:18:28:00
Based on a legislative proposal first drafted by this department, enabled the creation of doj civil rights division and authorized the attorney general to sue to enjoy voter discrimination, a denial of the right to vote. the first registrar for violating the act, the united states versus lind, was brought by john dior, an attorney who served during the eisenhower administration. by 1963, the department had filed 35 suits challenging discrimination or threats against black registration applicants in individual counties. but as attorney general robert kennedy said that was a, quote, painfully sl...