"Later this week (6/8), we will mark the 40 th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act – signed by President Johnson. It has been called one of the most successful pieces of civil rights legislation ever enacted.
In 1965, President Johnson said that,“the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice.”
Johnson, who had won on a landslide 61% against Republican Goldwater, famously remarked that by signing the Act he was giving away the South.
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