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1965 - The Voting Rights Act

Robert Knudsen (Aug. 6, 1965)

The Voting Rights Act


President Lyndon B. Johnson was able to push through the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in part because of the television coverage of the events of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama. He handed one of the ceremonial signing pens to John Lewis.

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