Debate on voting rights, Voter ID laws at LBJ Museum Wednesday

The public is invited to a special edition of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Museum’s annual Fall Lecture with a debate on voting rights on Wednesday, Oct. 24, by the LBJ Debate Society of Texas State University.

A reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. with refreshments by Mochas and Javas and Steger’s Chiffonade. The debate will start at 7 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. at the museum, 131 N. Guadalupe Street, San Marcos.

Moderated by Wayne Kraemer, director of the award-winning LBJ Debate Society at Texas State, two pairs of student debaters will tackle different views of Texas voter ID laws and court rulings that loosened the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965 under President Johnson.

Following the debate, the museum will show a short film of President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act.

Supporting the debate as sponsors are the Departments of Communication Studies, Political Science, and the Honors College at Texas State, Democracy for Texas, Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos, the Calaboose African American History Museum, Mochas & Javas, Steger’s Chiffonade, photographer Christopher Paul Cardoza, the College Democrats and the Hays County Democratic Party.

For more information, contact James Martin, Director, or Taylor Briley, Assistant Director, at the LBJ Museum, 512-353-3300.

The museum is open to the public Thursday – Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Group tours may be arranged by calling the LBJ Museum at 512-353-3300. Museum facilities, including the second floor auditorium and a conference room, may be rented by civic, educational and cultural organizations for special events.