{"id":15308,"date":"2015-01-23T07:05:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T13:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=15308"},"modified":"2015-02-13T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:31:01","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/15308","title":{"rendered":"The Voting Rights Act (MLK, Jr. Commemorative Event) – Jan. 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deuel Ross<\/strong><\/a>, Fried Frank Fellow for the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund<\/a>, will talk about the 1965 Voting Rights Act on Wed., Jan. 28, at 3:30 p.m. in the UC Hamilton Room<\/strong>. This is UWW\u2019s 29th annual Martin Luther King Commemorative Event, and it’s also part of the campus Conversation on Race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Voting Rights Act was enacted fifty years ago, signed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson on August 6, 1965<\/a>. Learn more about the history<\/a> of this legislation at the web site of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Read the legislation (Public Law 89-110<\/a>) online, courtesy of the House Library (U.S. Congress. House of Representatives). You also can read online President Johnson’s speech at a televised joint session of the Congress on March 15, 1965 called “The American Promise<\/a>,” delivered in the week following the violent “Bloody Sunday<\/a>” attack on civil rights marchers that also had been televised to the American public. Included in the speech are these lines:<\/p>\n

\nThere is no constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain.<\/p>\n

There is no moral issue. It is wrong–deadly wrong–to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country.<\/p>\n

There is no issue of States rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can watch President Johnson giving the speech on YouTube:
\n[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/5NvPhiuGZ6I[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

\"coverAndersen Library also has resources for digging deeper<\/strong>, such as the books The politics of disenfranchisement: Why is it so hard to vote in America?<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, JK1976 .S355 2010), Quiet revolution in the South: The impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, JK1929.A2 Q54 1994), and Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, JK1929 .A2 G37). There also are articles such as “Formulating Voting Rights Act Remedies to Address Current Conditions<\/a>” (American Politics Research<\/em>, 2014, vol.42:no.3, pp.376-408).<\/p>\n

Please ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance in finding information.<\/p>\n

\"FDLP Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD\/CD-ROM, online). Check out your<\/em> government at Andersen Library!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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