“The New Voting Bill: Rhetoric and Reality”

Pamphlet, March 23, 1965
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Edwin Hamlett Papers
Vanderbilt University Special Collections

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee published this pamphlet in response to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s speech about the Government’s commitment to enfranchising all Americans, specifically Black Americans; however, the Government’s subsequent actions did not fall in line with this promise.