Already this year, there have been 165 bills introduced in state legislatures throughout the U.S. placing limits on voting rights. Hannah Klain, Equal Justice Rights Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, talks about some of the provisions of two Congressional bills aimed to strengthen voting rights, the “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act” and […]
Madison, November 1965
Madison in the Sixties –November, 1965 John Lewis, the 25-year-old national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC, returns to Madison for two speaking engagements on the second, starting with a noon rally on the Memorial Union steps. That night, 400 students give him a standing ovation after his address in Great Hall, then […]
Madison, 1965 – Civil Rights
Madison in the Sixties. Civil rights, 1965 In November, two great civil rights leaders come to campus. John Lewis, the 25-year-old national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, speaks twice on the second — a noon rally on the Union steps, and an evening address in Great Hall. “Racism is embedded in the heart […]
