… Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades … Bloody Sunday. He was instrumental in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and in Congress he advocated for …
… it would discourage the Negroes from registering and voting and thus eliminate the powerful Negro vote in Chicago. … Negro in Chicago, as in every other part of America, is fighting for the fundamental rights of citizenship. If a … and liberty were at stake. In such a spirit most of the fighting was done. … Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of …