Cory Booker: “Blacks were prevented from voting by all kind of means, from…”

“So much of our democracy can came of age there before the sacrifices of martyrs, before Fred Shuttlesworth and Martin Luther King and so many other heroes of Alabama campaigns. We did not have a complete democracy. Blacks were prevented from voting by all kind of means, from terrorism and lynching all the way to legislators making it difficult for blacks to vote. And now we have a Supreme Court, six members who are sending us back to that long almost century where black political leadership and black electoral fairness was not represented in the House of Representatives.” (01:10–01:19)

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