Sixty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act saying, “The denial of the right to vote is still a deadly wrong and the time for injustice has gone.”
Today, we look back on the landmark legislation and the challenges that still face voting rights in the United States.
Joining Rose Scott for today’s special call-in edition of “Closer Look” is Andra Gillespie, associate professor of political science and director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University. Also, Dr. Clarissa Myrick-Harris White, a professor of Africana studies at Morehouse College and co-founder of the college’s Black Men’s Research Institute and co-principal investigator for the Morehouse Movement, Memory, and Justice.
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