"We Shall Overcome" Speech

This speech given by former president Lyndon B. Johnson on March 15th, 1965 was about the killing of a man in Selma, Alabama because of the African Americans trying to march for the right to vote. Johnson talks a lot about the Constitution and our rights as Americans. He also talks about Democracy quite a bit as well. Johnson thinks it's unfair to keep African Americans from voting because our rights as American citizens allows us the right to vote. He states "The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or color." Johnson stresses the fact that by not allowing the Negros to vote, Americans are disobeying the Constitution and everything the country stands for. At the end of his speech Johnson informs everyone that he is going to issue "a law designed to eliminate illegal barriers to the right to vote." Which means that after the bill has gone through Congress and been passed, African Americans will then have the right to vote.