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“DON’T BE GETTING ANY IDEAS THAT YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO VOTE”
As the Senate prepared bipartisan voting rights legislation the Johnson administration, recalling the filibuster that slowed the passage of the previous year’s Civil Rights Act, pressured the sponsors Democrat Mike Mansfield and Republican Everett Dirksen to move forward quickly. Herblock, mindful that the Senate Rules Committee had failed to strengthen the cloture rule to break filibusters, shared the Johnson administration’s fears.
“Don’t Be Getting Any Ideas That You Have a Right to Vote,” 1965. Published in the Washington Post, March 11,1965. |