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we got started in north carolina and it has since spread to half a dozen states in the south. it s a social justice movement the region hasn t seen frankly in 50 years. it s called moral mondays, also known as forward together movement. it s a series of protests that were first organized by the north carolina chapter of the naacp and began nearly a year ago. they have drawn thousands of people to the state s general assembly to protest the republican legislature s agenda, including cuts to medicaid, unemployment benefits and public education. these are mean-spirited policies that republicans have wanted to execute and implement for many years, and now they are in power and they re using that power in a mean-spirited way. poor people are paying the price for it. so moral monday has emerged. that s from one of the organizers. the protests expanded rapidly over the past year. in february, the naacp estimates that up to 100,000 people rallied in the state capitol. it s the largest civi

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kennedy the previous summer, all president kennedy talked about was how the civil rights bill needed to do what j. edgar hoover said and not be tainted with being subversive. kennedy was afraid of this, afraid of losing the south. no democratic president had ever been elected without the support of the solid south that was democrat in those days and all segregationists. so president kennedy was not making up these political handicaps, they were real. mr. califano, i want to go to this go ahead. and then i ve got a question for you. i think it s interesting to note you think about selma and king s march in selma, which was critical to the voting rights act. that came out of conversations between president johnson and martin luther king when he said to king, you know, you find the worst place in the south, you find where people can t vote without reciting the constitution and you get down there.

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urban cities that are going to turn out and vote, they re talking about people of color, they re talking about people in urban america. and there is a effort to win this election, to steal this election before it even takes place. it s not right, it s not fair and it s not just. congressman, why have these laws been allowed to proliferate? i showed earlier, just moments ago, how it swept across the country. is it simply because people have forgotten the national struggle, the issue that you just were talking about, that we shared from your speech during the dnc convention? are they aware of all the groups that it affects here? well, apparently, people are forgetting recent history. i know what i saw, i know what i witnessed, i know what i lived through. i almost lost my life on that bridge in selma, alabama.

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thank you so much for being with us today, representative. and you gave an impassioned speech at the dnc in charlotte. many people remember that, on this very issue, and i want to share with viewers what you said, just a little bit. take a listen. i ve seen this before. i lived this before. too many people struggling, s l suffering and dying to make it possible for every american to exercise their right to vote, and we have come too far together to ever turn back! congressman, you were referring to your work with the student nonviolent coordinating committee in 1965, when you lived through that brutality of the march on selma. that march almost killed you, and republicans deny there is necessary connection here between these moments and that time in history. what s your reaction? well, my reaction, it s very simple you cannot forget the past, you cannot forget history. there is a deliberate, systemic

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