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“And the right to vote was under attack on Sunday, March 7, 1965, when civil rights activists set out to march from Selma to Montgomery and were met with horrific violence,” he said, which ushered in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, “which gave the Justice Department important authorities to protect the right to vote.”
Rep. Burgess Owens, Utah Republican, reflected on his efforts as a young man to fight Jim Crow laws and said young Black Americans need role models, but should not be cast as inferior or unable to lift themselves up.
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