To get his education, housing and property bills passed before he goes back to Voter Registration because he just got a Voting Rights bill passed the previous year. He tells dr. King, there are two things you can do for me. One, find the worst example you can of voter intimidation, and get it in the papers, he says. Get it on the tv. The other thing is, help me get my other legislation passed. If you have seen the movie selma, it paints the president s role as a little bit more of a villain than the phone calls will. Help us remind people how pervasive, how numerous the barriers to Voter Registration were for black citizens in the south. Im not sure how many have seen the movie. What you see is a quintessential example of what it was like throughout the south. I was a part of the Mississippi Movement of sncc. In the movie you will see that sncc had been in selma, as it had been in other parts of the south for a long time, and when things got to the point where it looks like there was g
Utterly stumped. They believed it was a perfect machine of to that point in time. It was a very wellkept secret. If theres a lesson you can take from this, its one thing that everyone of responsibility should know. Be careful of the word impossible. When 70 says somethings impossible and theres a lot riding on a coming need to check it out. Be careful of your assumptions. If you dont investigate what you believe to be the truth, you can meet with devastating consequences. The germans believed the machines we demonstrated was perfect and can never be broken but thats not the case. Thankfully, for the rest of the world, they paid a very high price. It always pays to check out your assumptions. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at the span history. Tonight is the Academy Awards ceremony and the movie selma has been nominated for best picture. Next, congresswoman Eleanor Holmes norton and cbs news corres
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