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This YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxEauRq1WxQ) is part of President Johnson’s March 15, 1965, speech before Congress on Voting Rights. He begins by talking about the ‘dignity of man and the destiny of Democracy.’ The clip ends with him saying, “There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.”

http://www.twincities.com/ci_19526934

http://www.ag.ny.gov/media_center/2011/dec/dec9a_11.html

http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_19510129?source=rss

http://www.aclu.org/voting-rights/aclu-files-lawsuit-challenging-wisconsins-unconstitutional-voter-id-law

From The Guardian, by Ed Pilkington

NAACP warns black and Hispanic Americans could lose right to vote

Civil rights group petitions UN over 'massive voter suppression' after apparent effort to disenfranchise black and Hispanic people

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/05/civil-rights-naacp-voter-war...

Press release includes:

On December 5, 2011, the NAACP released a new report revealing direct connections between the trend of increasing, unprecedented African American and Latino voter turnout and an onslaught of restrictive measures across the country designed to stem electoral strength among communities of color.

read more at http://www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com/article/20111204/CWS0101/112040486/State-ID-law-leaves-village-leader-without-right-vote?odyssey=mod%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE

Nashville homeless man says he got voter ID runaround

http://blogs.tennessean.com/politics/2011/nashville-homeless-man-says-he-got-voter-id-runaround/

Al Star, a Nashville homeless man, says he got the runaround from the Department of Safety when he attempted a few days before Thanksgiving to apply for a free state identification to vote,

Slate: A Fraudulent Case: The ugly parallels between Jim Crow and modern vote-suppression laws

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2011/10/voter_id_laws_their_proponents_should_have_to_answer_for_the_ugl.single.html