crimeschneck∈🇩🇪⊂🇪🇺@sopuli.xyzM to Anniversaries: X years ago today@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 1 month ago60 years ago today, U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. It is a landmark U.S. federal statute that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-link60 years ago today, U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. It is a landmark U.S. federal statute that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.en.wikipedia.orgcrimeschneck∈🇩🇪⊂🇪🇺@sopuli.xyzM to Anniversaries: X years ago today@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square1linkfedilink
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoA full quarter of Democrats voted against it (26%) while only 2% of Republicans did. If only half of Republicans had abstained (or just left town), it wouldn’t have passed. And good old boy racist LBJ only grudgingly signed it, as he was backed into a corner. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78
A full quarter of Democrats voted against it (26%) while only 2% of Republicans did.
If only half of Republicans had abstained (or just left town), it wouldn’t have passed.
And good old boy racist LBJ only grudgingly signed it, as he was backed into a corner.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78