On C-SPAN now - Discrimination in Voting: Historical Overview

Meeting
Discrimination in Voting: Historical Overview
National Cmsn. on the Voting Rights Act
Montgomery, Alabama (United States)
ID: 185869 - 03/11/2005 - 1:37 - $29.95

Lee, Bill Lann, Chair, National Cmsn. on the Voting Rights Act
Mathias, Charles, Member, National Cmsn. on the Voting Rights Act
Buchanan, John Jr., Member, National Cmsn. on the Voting Rights Act
Davidson, Chandler, Member, National Cmsn. on the Voting Rights Act
Huerta, Dolores, Member, National Cmsn. on the Voting Rights Act
Ogletree, Charles J. Jr., Member, National Cmsn. on the Voting Rights Act
Meeks, Elsie M., Member, National Cmsn. on the Voting Rights Act

The National Commission on the Voting Rights Act will convene its first hearing as part of a nationwide series to examine the impending reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. The privately organized commission will hold a series of regional hearings across the country to gather testimony and evidence that will be used to create a comprehensive record on the degree of racial discrimination in voting and since the last VRA reauthorization in 1982.

The first panel will present a Historical Overview. Panelists include Dr. Gwendolyn Patton and Vernon Burton, Ph.D., University of Illinois.

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