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Voting Rights Act Of 1965
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
Voting Rights Act Of 1965

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Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Defined

Took numerous measures to ensure that racial minorities would enjoy full voting rights; banned literacy tests, required federal marshals to register voters in some counties, and regulated how some states could draw legislative districts.

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Single-member voting districts OK"™d

Published January 7, 2009, 9:40 pm, Valley Morning Star

HARLINGEN - City commissioners voted Wednesday to approve the third of five maps for single-member voting districts.

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John Wellington Ennis: That Old Blackwell 'Magic'

Published January 6, 2009, 9:42 am, HuffingtonPost

Ken Blackwell released a list "conservative luminaries" who endorse him as RNC Chair. It reads like a list of guest-stars from The Love Boat.

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Griffin Bell, Attorney General in 1970s, Dies at 90 (Update1)

Published January 5, 2009, 9:59 am, Bloomberg

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Griffin Bell , who confronted America’s painful disputes over race as a federal judge in the Deep South and as U.S. attorney general under President Jimmy Carter , a fellow Georgian, has died. He was 90.

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Dan Krieger: A man who stood up for the civil rights of all

Published January 3, 2009, 11:30 pm, The San Luis Obispo Tribune

“I found myself at the bottom of the dog pile. There was no way that I wasn’t going to be badly beaten,” said Bud Ogren, who became a beloved figure in retirement in San Luis Obispo. Rockford, Ill., during the 1920s wasn’t a particularly tolerant place. An industrial city northwest of Chicago, it attracted wave after wave of new Americans during the heyday of immigration prior to the First World ...

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For inauguration zeal, LBJ '65 may be the precedent for Obama

Published January 1, 2009, 11:30 pm, Boston Globe

WASHINGTON - Louise White Cashin, a young Democratic activist from Southern California, arrived in Washington on the eve of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 inauguration to find "just more black people than anyone would have been able to imagine together."

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