Keeping The Promise: A Community Panel on the Voting Rights Act Part 2

August 30, 2015
Keeping The Promise: A Community Panel on the Voting Rights Act Part 2
30 Minutes
Keeping The Promise: A Community Panel on the Voting Rights Act Part 2

Aug 30 2015 |

/

Show Notes

Voting-Rights-Act-Image1 On August 6th, 1965, President Johnson signed the voting rights act. Here in Tucson, Congressman Raul Grijalva convened an event entitled Keeping The Promise, A Community Panel on the Voting Rights Act at the Tucson YWCA. Speakers discussed the promise it continues to hold for countless Americans, and the ongoing efforts to undermine that promise 50 years after it became law. Speakers include Attorney Vince Rabago, Congressman Raul Grijalva, and Grace Temple Baptist Church Pastor Grady Scott.

This is part 2 of a multipart series recorded and produced by Amanda Shauger

Other Episodes

Episode

April 30, 2018 28:42
Episode Cover

El Tambó Fest: Cumbia Summit of the Borderlands Part 1

El Tambó Fest, Night One: First-Ever Cumbia Summit of the Borderlands kicked off on April 27, 2018 at Hotel Congress. The event was part...

Listen

Episode

January 20, 2019 00:24:21
Episode Cover

No More Deaths Volunteer Catherine Gaffney

No More Deaths volunteer Catherine Gaffney discussed the January 18th, 2019 guilty verdict handed down by a federal magistrate to four volunteers who say...

Listen

Episode

February 22, 2015
Episode Cover

African Latinas in Colonial Arizona

Today on 30 Minutes, scholar and story teller Dr. Michael Engs tells little known stories about African Latinas in colonial Arizona. He is co-owner...

Listen