Today in history President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced Voting Rights Act before joint session of Congress.
🗣 👀Read THIS SPEECH ! Today in history President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced Voting Rights Act before joint session of Congress. It defined the fight for voting rights. Please read and share the speech “We Shall Overcome” March 15, 1965 Washington, DC. “I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of Democracy. I urge every member of both parties, Americans of all religions and of all colors, from every section of this country, to join me in that cause. At times, history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. There, long suffering men and women peacefully protested the denial of their rights as Americans. Many of them were brutally assaulted. One good man--a man of God--was killed. There is no cause for pride in what has happened in Selma. There is no cause for self-satisfaction in th...