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Protect Voting Rights: Renew the VRA (CD-ROM/DVD)

Protect Voting Rights: Renew the VRA
(CD-ROM/DVD)
  • A two-disc set for activists, educators and anyone interested in this landmark civil rights legislation.
To receive "Protect Voting Rights: Renew the VRA," please email info@renewthevra.org with the following information:
  • Name
  • Organization
  • How the DVD/ CD-Rom will be used? (e.g., educational purposes).
  • Address
  • The number of copies of "Protect Voting Rights: Renew the VRA" needed.


The DVD, designed to play on home DVD players or computers with DVD playing capability, offers English and Spanish menus that include:
  • Video testimonials about the impact of the VRA, as told by activists in Charleston County, South Carolina; Houston, Texas; Pine Ridge, South Dakota; and Sequin, Texas (video in English and Spanish)
  • Historical footage of Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson's speech to Congress in March 1965 (video in English)
  • Rep. John Lewis' speech at the National Voting Rights Act Conference (video in English)


The multimedia CD-ROM disc (for use on a PC or Mac computer) contains the following fact sheets, speeches, testimonials, and tools:

Learn More
  • History of the VRA
  • FAQs About the VRA
  • Reauthorization of the VRA
  • Why You Should Care About the VRA
  • 40 Years After "Bloody Sunday," A Promise Still Unfulfilled
  • Myth: Voting Rights for African Americans Expire in 2007


Check It Out
  • Video from the National Conference on the VRA
  • Including Rep. John Lewis' speech and the opening plenary
  • LCCREF Statement on the 40th Anniversary of the VRA
  • Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson's Remarks at the Signing of the VRA (text)
  • Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson's Speech Before Congress, March 1965 (video)


Real Stories
  • Video Testimonials About the Impact of the VRA
    • Bernard R. Fielding Sr., Charleston County, South Carolina
    • Michael Nguyen, Houston, Texas
    • Thomas Shortbull, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
    • Nina Perales, Seguin, Texas
  • "Real People" Stories and Interactive Map
    • Note: the interactive map also shows which states are affected by Sections 5 and/or 203

 
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