the america we had become within the past five decades what transpired was not simply an assault on democracy, it was an attack on multiracial america, the atlantic points out which is younger than most members of the senate. while many like to trace american democracy back to 1776, that s not exactly true. the real day democracy in america was born was august 6th, 1965. that s when president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act outlawing discrimination in our country s voting process. that s the democracy that trump and his supporters were after on january 6th. and that much is clear based to on this image. a trump supporter carrying the confederate battle flag through the halls of the capitol on january 6th. that s their version of america. now, january 6th bubbled many uncomfortable truths to the surface, but one might be the most frightening.
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and that s not hyperbolic. that s because the voting rights act was signed on august 6th, 1965 by president johnson, and has been gutted by the gop supreme court in 2013, and recently a case gutting section two. we are literally before the civil rights movement in terms of protecting voters of color, specifically black voters from this. so the john lewis voting rights act takes a step in the right direction. it would put the pre-clearance provision back in the voting rights action, which is the heart and soul of the voting rights act. it means before states that have covered jurisdictions can change anything like new voter i.d., or even closing polling stations, they have to get preapproval by the department of justice or a federal judge in d.c. that s gone. it s remarkable where we stand right now and the gop, people say it s a war on democracy like it s trite. this is literally what we re watching. pride called it a democracy, and we re watching it play out here. the question is, wil
brutally beaten and tear gassed by alabama state troopers and local police. broadcast around the world. providing johnson the political momentum needed to urgently get the voting rights legislation back in play. there is no negro problem. there is no southern problem. there is no northern problem. there is only an american problem. reporter: the voting rights act passed about five months later, and was signed into law on august 6th, 1965, forbidding racial discrimination in voting. we have to stay engaged, have to stay on the battlefield because things don t permanently change unless you are there in the fight. dad did a sermon called sleeping through a revolution. and we have to make sure that we do not sleep through the revolution. reporter: suzanne malveaux, cnn, washington. suzanne, thank you very much for that. and thank you, everyone, for
their constitutional right to vote. king targeted selma, alabama, where less than 2% of black residents were registered to vote. the first attempted march for voting rights from selma to montgomery drew several hundred to the edmund pettus bridge. no money, no real plans. i was thinking politically and practically, he was thinking spiritually. reporter: as the marchers crossed the bridge they were brutally beaten and teargassedbloody sunday broadcast around the world to urgently get vote rights legislation back in play. there is no negro problem. there is no southern problem. there is no northern problem. there is only an american problem. reporter: the voting rights act passed about five months later. and was signed into law on august 6th, 1965.
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