I heard Moore loudly and clearly. He singled out the year when the Voting Rights Act became law, after blacks and their white allies did indeed become martyrs on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala., and in other campaigns for the civil rights originally extended to blacks in post-Civil War amendments to the U.S. Constitution. They were “new rights” to the likes of Roy Moore only because states like his Alabama and my Georgia had ignored the Constitution for nearly a century. What happened in the 1960s — including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and even changes in media that followed the damning Kerner Commission report in 1968 — marked what seemed like America moving into its greatness.