(6 Aug 2025)
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 15 March 1965
1. SOUNDBITE (English) US President Lyndon Johnson:
“Wherever there is discrimination, this law will strike down all restrictions used to deny the people the right to vote.”
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Washington – 6 August 1965
2. STILL: President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Martin Luther King Jr., after presenting a pen to the civil rights leader after Johnson signed the voting rights bill at the Capitol (AP Photo; ID: 23154005511135)
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Washington – 6 August 1965
3. STILL: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President’s Room at the U.S. Capitol (AP Photo; ID: 23154005485378)
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Selma, Alabama – 7 March 1965
4. Various of protesters marching over Edmund Pettus Bridge
5. Protesters physically pushed back by police with batons
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New York – 6 August 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stella Colletti, The Associated Press
“It’s been 60 years since the Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. It was a historic victory for Black Americans, who had fought for decades to end tactics aimed at suppressing Black voters”
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ARCHIVE: Selma, Alabama – 7 March 1965
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Luther King Jr, Pastor and Civil Rights Activist
“I talked with President Johnson just last week over the telephone about some of the problems we’ve been facing”
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Cleveland – 4 April 2006
8. STILL: Activists march to advocate reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (AP Photo by Tony Dejak; ID: 06040408981)
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New York – 6 August 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Stella Colletti, The Associated Press
“But the law has been slowly eroding in recent years. And now, it faces serious threats.”
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 12 May 2020
10. Wide of United States Supreme Court building
11. Close-up engraving reads "Equal Justice Under Law"
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ARCHIVE: Washington – date unknown
12. Tilt down of US Supreme Court building
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Derry, New Hampshire — 22 January 2024
13. Close of “VOTE HERE” sign
14. Mid of row of voting booths
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New York – 6 August 2025
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Stella Colletti, The Associated Press
“In 2013, a US Supreme Court decision ended the requirement that all or parts of 15 states with a history of discrimination in voting would need federal approval before changing the way they hold elections.”
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 7 October 2022
16. Various of U.S. Supreme Court justices posing for group photo
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Cleveland – 4 April 2006
17. STILL: Activist holds sign advocating reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (AP Photo by Tony Dejak; ID: 06040406037)
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New York – 6 August 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Stella Colletti, The Associated Press
“Two years ago, the Supreme Court *did* uphold a key part of the Voting Rights Act.
But in its upcoming term, it’s scheduled to hear a case that could roll back that decision… and another that would strip the act’s power entirely.”
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Washington – 28 September 2013
19. STILL: people standing outside the Supreme Court in Washington before the start of a rally during arguments in the Shelby County, Ala., v. Holder case. (AP Photo by Evan Vucci; ID: 92327302379)
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Washington – 27 February 2013
20. STILL: People wait in line outside the Supreme Court to listen to oral arguments in the Shelby County, Ala., v. Holder voting rights case.
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