Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 95 years ago today, tennessee ratified the 19th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Clearing the way for women to vote. It would be half a century before a similar guarantee was given to africanamericans. For decades, some states barred entry to the ballot box. Intimidation, threats, burdens, poll taxes, tricky application procedures were on the benign end. The threat of sudden violence, murder was at the other end of the scale. Now, 50 years later, plenty of americans are prepared to let the guarantees of the voting right acts from the one it was in 1995. Randall pinkston has more. This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong. When president Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights abbing. He called it a monumental law. Johnson pushed the bill through congress. The struggle was proseeded by another battle. This was known as bloody sunday, it outraged the nation. Reporter a few weeks after bloody sund
That its weakened or in retreat as america marked the 50th vote. Its inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 95 years ago today, tennessee ratified the 19th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Clearing the way for women to vote. It would be half a century before a similar guarantee was given to africanamericans. For decades, some states barred entry to the ballot box. Intimidation, threats, burdens, poll taxes, tricky application procedures were on the benign end. The threat of sudden violence, murder was at the other end of the scale. Now, 50 years later, plenty of americans are prepared to let the guarantees of the voting right acts from the one it was in 1995. Randall pinkston has more. This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong. When president Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights abbing. He called it a monumental law. Johnson pushed the bill through congress. The struggle was proseeded by another battle. This was kno
Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 95 years ago today, tennessee ratified the 19th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Clearing the way for women to vote. It would be half a century before a similar guarantee was given to africanamericans. For decades, some states barred entry to the ballot box. Intimidation, threats, burdens, poll taxes, tricky application procedures were on the benign end. The threat of sudden violence, murder was at the other end of the scale. Now, 50 years later, plenty of americans are prepared to let the guarantees of the voting right acts from the one it was in 1995. Randall pinkston has more. This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong. When president Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights abbing. He called it a monumental law. Johnson pushed the bill through congress. The struggle was proseeded by another battle. This was known as bloody sunday, it outraged the nation. Reporter a few weeks after bloody sund
State shoulders when they made laws. Now the acts supporters worry that its weakened or in retreat as america marked the 50th vote. Its inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 95 years ago today, tennessee ratified the 19th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Clearing the way for women to vote. It would be half a century before a similar guarantee was given to africanamericans. For decades, some states barred entry to the ballot box. Intimidation, threats, burdens, poll taxes, tricky application procedures were on the benign end. The threat of sudden violence, murder was at the other end of the scale. Now, 50 years later, plenty of americans are prepared to let the guarantees of the voting right acts from the one it was in 1995. Randall pinkston has more. This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong. When president Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights abbing. He called it a monumental law. Johnson pushed the bill through c
Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 95 years ago today, tennessee ratified the 19th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Clearing the way for women to vote. It would be half a century before a similar guarantee was given to africanamericans. For decades, some states barred entry to the ballot box. Intimidation, threats, burdens, poll taxes, tricky application procedures were on the benign end. The threat of sudden violence, murder was at the other end of the scale. Now, 50 years later, plenty of americans are prepared to let the guarantees of the voting right acts from the one it was in 1995. Randall pinkston has more. This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong. When president Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights abbing. He called it a monumental law. Johnson pushed the bill through congress. The struggle was proseeded by another battle. This was known as bloody sunday, it outraged the nation. Reporter a few weeks after bloody sund