Rachel Maddow talks new documentary exploring the legacy of civil rights icon Andrew Young
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power represented here today and I come to ask you to go all out to get every negro in this county register to vote. >> That was Dr. . Martin Luther King Jr.. in 1966 urging black citizens of King Street, South Carolina to exercise their newfound right to vote. A right secured just a year earlier when Lynden B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.Nearly 60 years later, the law that ensured that right is now under attack. Yesterday, the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision in tha ...