The government funded Public Broadcasting Service wants to know “your story” about the Voting Rights Act.  “The Supreme Court will examine a constitutional challenge to the act in one of the most-watched cases this year. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is still necessary and whether voters still risk disenfranchisement in certain parts of the country,” the website notes, and therefore they are collecting oral histories about the circumstances which led to the passage of the Act.

They offer a helpful sample, from a paid federal observer who recounts his experience offering assistance.  I recall an interesting time when some aggressively opposed federal observers providing testimony in court about their observations.  PBS, on the other hand, must be a suitable forum to recount their observations.

Yet one can read a court affidavit of a federal observer here.