In 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Selma, Alabama, to help lead a campaign for black voting rights. The goal was national legislation to guarantee African Americans’ access to the ballot. Today that voting rights legislation has been undermined by the Supreme Court and targeted voter suppression in black communities. Fifty-five years after black Americans gained the vote, has one of the centerpieces of Reverend King’s legacy, been shredded?
Guests:
Michael Jeffries - Associate professor of American Studies at Wellesley College and UTR contributor.
Jason Sokol - Civil Rights Movement historian and associate professor at the University of New Hampshire.
