The 1965 Voting Rights Act needs to be renewed and is headed for the Senate, where some Republicans will try to run down the clock. Next week, the NAACP is sending 2000 volunteers to Washington to meet with Senators, and we want to arm them with signatures and comments from thousands of supportive Americans. Will you join in?
sign petition at http://political.moveon.org/votingrights/?id=8207-2648050-USg6AlHQArwbxWKAALQ9NA&t=1
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July 14, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Helen Losse
“The House voted yesterday to renew the Voting Rights Act after long debates about its necessity. The Act, H.R. 9, was renamed “The Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006” to honor these women for their continued and devoted efforts to achieve justice and equality for all people. Originally passed in 1965, the Voting Rights Act eliminated race discrimination, poll taxes, and literacy tests at the polls and established additional measures in areas in which race-based discrimination occurred in the past – particularly in the South.
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The Senate still needs to vote on the Act. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has already called for a vote before the August recess.”
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