Voting Rights Act: Compare and Contrast
Voting Rights Act: Compare and Contrast
Civil Rights Act, 1964
As long as we've got you in a legislative mood, check out Johnson's 1964 civil rights legislation.While a voting rights section rides along the beginning of this legal document as well, most of thi...
Civil Rights Address, John F. Kennedy, 1963
While Kennedy didn't get around to passing any legislation himself before he met his untimely demise, the Civil Rights Address did provide the lightning rod for LBJ to get the kind of traction he d...
"Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr., 1963
Of course, in turn, JFK's rhetoric in his Civil Rights Address carries the unmistakable thrust of this famous and eloquent 1963 letter. Seriously: take a second to check out the whole thing. To say...
Voting Rights Act Address, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
Since we're spending so much time talking about the bill, we should probably also take a peek at what LBJ had to say about the bill.At its heart, hisspeech digs back to the promises made to the Ame...