When the Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in August 1965, not a mention of it was made locally.
The dominant headline in the Aug. 8, 1965 edition of the Chula Vista Star News shouted: RABIES ALARM SPREADS AS INFECTED DOG SHOT. Below that was a story detailing a request to the U.S. Attorney General to investigate the alleged beating of “a Mexican alien by a San Ysidro border patrolman”, as well as a story about a …
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