A Reminder of How Far We Have Come

[tekisui]

The 1965 Voting Rights Act

Voter registration worker George Ball explains how to vote to a mother of three in the family's living room.


Vera Piggy leads an evening voter registration class in Clarksdale, Mississippi.



Sheriff's deputies search the swamps near Philadelphia, Mississippi after three civil rights volunteers had disappeared. The three were jailed for a time and upon their release they were eventually found murdered. It was suspected that their jailers had also become their killers.


Otha Neal Burkes, a longtime Philadelphia policeman, is brought in for arraignment in the murders of the slain civil rights workers. Seven defendants were eventually convicted for conspiring to deprive the victims of their civil rights.


A young civil rights marcher displays a graphic reminder of why the Selma March was being held. Later that year, President Lyndon Johnson spearheaded the Voting Rights Act of 1965.(all photos:Charles Moore)

[H2O Man]

1. Very good.

In 1957, a young civil rights leader named Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered a keynote address in front of the Lincoln Memorial, during the Prayer Pilgrimage for Peace. This May 17th speech was made on the third anniversary of the famous US Supreme Court decision on school desegregation. The title os the speech was, "Give Us the Ballot -- We Will Transform the South."

America is undergoing a transformation today.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Growing up in Northern Virginia I remember

traveling down South seeing something like this and was shocked
since never seen anything like that. I had to ask my parents
about it because it disturbed me so.

It is still embedded in my memories.

Their is a radical revolutionary shift happening in this country

Go Obama