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Surrounded by congressional leaders, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the President’s Room of the Capitol

Surrounded by congressional leaders, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the President’s Room of the Capitol

 

Surrounded by congressional leaders, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the President’s Room of the Capitol.

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