Should Veterans of The Civil Rights Battles Receive Actual Veteran's Benefits?

 

The son of one such veteran says yes:

"America was not a functioning democracy before the campaign my father and his fellow activists fought. In Mississippi, for instance, only 6.7 percent of eligible Black voters were registered to vote in 1964. So workers all across the state of Mississippi organized, fought and strategized to bring about what would become the Voting Rights Act of 1965, enforcing the 15th Amendment right to vote. This is when America became a true democracy."

Read the entire column by David Dennis Jr. HERE.