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Dying to Vote in Mississippi, Part I

November 08, 2005

By 1965 concerted efforts to break the grip of state disfranchisement had been under way for some time, but had achieved only modest success overall and in some areas had achieved no success at all.The murder of voting-rights activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, gained national attention, along with numerous other acts of violence and terrorism.Finally, the unprovoked attack on March 7, 1965, by state troopers on peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on their way to Montgomery, persuaded the President and Congress to overcome Southern legislators’ resistance to allowing the African American vote.President Johnson issued a call for a strong voting rights law and hearings began soon thereafter on the bill that would become the Voting Rights Act. On the dawn of its 40th Anniversary, Congress is preparing for the reauthorization of key provisions in the Voting Rights Act that will expire in 2007.Margaret Block remembers going door to door in rural Charleston, Mississippi over forty years ago at the age of 17 and “right out of high school” to hand out voting rights pamphlets.”People would see me coming and close their doors. They were really afraid. It was much worse than Greenwood,” Block said, referring to…

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