Johnson understood the historical significance of the Voting Rights Act and considered it the most important accomplishment of his presidency. In a recorded telephone conversation on January 15, with Dr.
King, Johnson explained how critical it was to pass voting rights legislation:. I think the greatest achievement of my Administration. I think the greatest achievement in foreign policy, I said to a group yesterday, was the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Native Americans hold a significant place in White House history. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples, including the Nacotchtank and On November 22, , about two hours after the assassination of President John F.
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Who oversees the White House and the Residence staff? Have any presidents or first ladies died at the White House? When did the White House first get plumbing? See More Questions. Get in touch. Such rapid change would require moral fortitude: If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
Lyndon B. Instead, all citizens needed to consider it as their cause: What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and State of America.
The registrar is the sole judge of whether he passes this test. He may be asked to recite the entire Constitution, or explain the most complex provisions of state law. And even a college degree cannot be used to prove that he can read and write. No law that we now have on the books—and I have helped to put three of them there—can ensure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it. The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or his color.
We have all sworn an oath before God to support and to defend that Constitution. We must now act in obedience to that oath. After they have reviewed it, it will come here formally as a bill. I am grateful for this opportunity to come here tonight at the invitation of the leadership to reason with my friends, to give them my views, and to visit with my former colleagues. But I want to really discuss with you now, briefly, the main proposals of this legislation.
But experience has plainly shown that this is the only path to carry out the command of the Constitution. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is only the struggle for human rights. That civil rights bill was passed after eight long months of debate.
And when that bill came to my desk from the Congress for my signature, the heart of the voting provision had been eliminated. And we ought not and we cannot and we must not wait another eight months before we get a bill.
We have already waited a hundred years and more, and the time for waiting is gone. For from the window where I sit with the problems of our country I recognize that from outside this chamber is the outraged conscience of a nation, the grave concern of many nations, and the harsh judgment of history on our acts. But even if we pass this bill, the battle will not be over. What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and state of America.
It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. I know how difficult it is to reshape the attitudes and the structure of our society. And he is not fully free tonight. And yet the Negro is not equal. I tell you that I believe sincerely that no force can hold it back. It is right in the eyes of man and God that it should come. And when it does, I think that day will brighten the lives of every American.
How many white children have gone uneducated, how many white families have lived in stark poverty, how many white lives have been scarred by fear, because we have wasted our energy and our substance to maintain the barriers of hatred and terror?
These are the enemies: poverty, ignorance, disease. They are the enemies and not our fellow man, not our neighbor. And these enemies too—poverty, disease and ignorance—we shall overcome. There is really no part of America where the promise of equality has been fully kept. In Buffalo as well as in Birmingham, in Philadelphia as well as Selma, Americans are struggling for the fruits of freedom.
What happens in Selma or Cincinnati is a matter of legitimate concern to every American. But let each of us look within our own hearts and our own communities, and let each of us put our shoulder to the wheel to root out injustice wherever it exists. Men from every region fought for us across the world twenty years ago. For all of us owe this duty; and I believe that all of us will respond to it. In , in another interview, Seeger said "it's very probable" that Louise Shropshire taught the song to the woman who taught it to him.
Music historians cite at least three other hymns as the possible origin of "We Shall Overcome. In , Louise Shropshire's artifacts and papers — including original sheet music — were given to the University of Cincinnati's Rare Books and Archives Library. That donation by Robert A. Born in as the granddaughter of slaves and daughter of sharecroppers in Coffe County, Alabama, Shropshire moved with her family in to Cincinnati as part of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the South.
Her musical talent showed early in life. She was 16 when she married Robert, 13 years her senior. She and her husband used money from their successful bail bonds business to assist civil rights workers who'd been arrested and jailed in the South. Through her activism, she was introduced to King and Shuttlesworth and befriended them. Lee Daniels, who produced and directed "The Butler," spoke during the ceremony at inspirational Baptist.
He said the rights holders demanded a six-figure rights fee for him to use the song in his film about the White House butler. Gamboa said producers could not afford the rights fee. Yet the song would not and has not been silenced. It's sung by marchers on the King holiday each year and by demonstrators in Women's Marches. John Morris Russell, the conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, who directed that performance, calls "If My Jesus Wills" the "most important piece of music ever composed in Cincinnati.
Shropshire is said to have written "If My Jesus Wills" between and , when she published it. In , she helped Shuttlesworth relocate from Birmingham, Alabama, to the pulpit at Revelation.
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