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  1. Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation

    ATLANTA – Same fight. New generation. That’s the mantra of a multiracial group of civil rights leaders and…
    #Politics #BennieThompson #BrianP.Kemp #DerrickJohnson #DonaldTrump #ethnicity #JamesClyburn #JaredEvans #LyndonB.Johnson #LyndonJohnson #MartinLutherKingJr. #race #RaphaelWarnock #ShaneMassey #TerriSewell
    europesays.com/2990530/

  2. Thank you #HeatherCoxRichardson for putting things into perspective...
    " On August 6th, Dr. King and Mrs. Boynton were guests of honor as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Recalling the outrage of Selma, Johnson said, this right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."
    Let's not forget that of all the rights Americans enjoy, the #RightToVote is the most consequential!
    #LyndonJohnson #BloodySunday #GOPVoterSuppression
    heathercoxrichardson.substack.

  3. “Presidents #HarryTruman in 1952 & #LyndonJohnson in 1968, who suffered faltering health & popularity, also exemplified such #humility & #valor by prioritizing the national interest over their #ambitions.

    “Just because#Biden stepped away voluntarily does not mean it was easy. The more #Democrats pushed the president to drop out of the race in the aftermath of last month’s debate…& the more that #GOP voices taunted him, the more he stubbornly dug in:

  4. #Nutcase #conspiracy author 😬

    Under Cover of Night, by #SeanFetter

    “In this volume, #Fetter makes his case for a conspiracy, one featuring #LyndonJohnson and, of all people, the deceased House Speaker Sam Rayburn. To say that it does not work is being much too kind to the author”

    #jfk #kennedy
    kennedysandking.com/john-f-ken