Voting Rights Act 50th Anniversary and the Printing Museum: Thursday’s Show (Aug. 6, 2015)

The ruling came down just a day shy of the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, signed by President Lyndon Johnson on Aug. 6, 1965. The federal law established rules to stop legal barriers preventing African-Americans from voting.

On today’s edition of Houston Matters, we discuss yesterday’s Fifth Circuit ruling on the state’s voter ID law and what happens next. We also look back on the history of the Voting Rights Act.

Then, we revisit some of our past conversations about pre-clearance and the Texas voter ID law.

Also this hour: We examine an intervention program to keep more Houstonians out of the ER, and what kind of impact it’s had since it began eight months ago.

And we take a tour of Houston’s Printing Museum.

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