17h 55min, aug 6, 1965 y - Voting Rights Act
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President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law. The legislation prohibited the kind of tactics that had been used in Selma to hinder black voter registration (deliberately slow service, odd courthouse hours, and excessively difficult literacy tests)
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Selma Presentation
Ben Westley
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