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Voting Rights Speech

United States of America · Politics / Civil Rights. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1965

Lyndon Baines Johnson15 March 1965

Washington · Politics / Civil Rights

Addresses Congress after Selma and calls for voting rights legislation, declaring “We shall overcome.”

Names involved

Lyndon Baines Johnson

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