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THE MARCH GOES ON
As the Senate approved the Voting Rights Act on May 26, 1965, the legislation moved forward, with a high priority from the Johnson administration, to the House for consideration. Herblock portrays the bill as a marcher, leaving the Senate floor despite efforts to stop it. In March 1965, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders had marched from Selma to Montgomery to pressure Alabama to permit African Americans to register to vote. They used their march to focus the national spotlight on the disenfranchisement of minorities.
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The March Goes On, 1965. Published in the Washington Post, May 30, 1965. |