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October 1, 2020
Starting All Over Again: The March for Human Rights Will Never End
By Marta Steele
When the Civil Rights Act was gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013, with the elimination of the preclearance requirement, the late Georgia Representative John Lewis said, “We’ll have to start all over again,” referring to the bloodshed and indescribable human sacrifice in the sixties that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act in 1965. One such effort, a march from Milwaukee to Washington, 750 miles, drew racist gunfire la ...
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When the Civil Rights Act was gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013, with the elimination of the preclearance requirement, the late Georgia Representative John Lewis said, “We’ll have to start all over again,” referring to the bloodshed and indescribable human sacrifice in the sixties that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
One such effort, a march from Milwaukee to Washington, 750 miles, drew racist gunfire last August. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, “They planned to arrive on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream Speech.” The trek was meant to pay homage to the 54-mile peaceful walk that King and others made from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama in 1965."
Authors Website: http://www.wordsunltd.com
Authors Bio:
Marta Steele is an author/editor/blogger who has been writing for Opednews.com since 2006. She is also author of the 2012 book "Grassroots, Geeks, Pros, and Pols: The Election Integrity Movement's Nonstop Battle to Win Back the People's Vote, 2000-2008" (Columbus, Free Press) and a member of the Election Integrity movement since 2001. Her original website, WordsUnLtd.com, first entered the blogosphere in 2003. She recently became a senior editor for Opednews.com. She has in the past taught college and worked as a full-time as well as freelance reporter. She has been a peace and election integrity activist since 1999. Her undergraduate and graduate educational background are in Spanish, classical philology, and historical and comparative linguistics. Her biography is most recently listed in "Who's Who in America" 2019 and in 2018 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Who's Who.