Louisiana Naacp President Calls for Emergency Legislation to Extend the Voting Provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
U.S. Newswire › September 09, 2005
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JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Some provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are set to expire in 2007. Ernest Johnson, Sr., president of the Louisiana NAACP, calls on President Bush and the Congress to pass emergency legislation to extend those provisions for another 25 years in light of the recent disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina.
The disaster has caused over 1.5 million people, a third of the voters in the State of Louisiana, to be displaced. Thousands of voter precincts will change based upon voter distribution following completion of the rebuilding process, which may take three years. Many African Americans in Mississippi and Alabama were also impacted by the largest natural disaster this country has ever seen.See the full content of this document
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