White House Weekly Address: Reaffirming Our Commitment to Protecting the Right to Vote

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2015

Hi, everybody.  The right to vote is one of the most fundamental rights of any democracy.  Yet for too long, too many of our fellow citizens were denied that right, simply because of the color of their skin.

Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson signed a law to change that.  The Voting Rights Act broke down legal barriers that stood between millions of African Americans and their constitutional right…