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Person shall be kept from voting because of his race or his color. we have all sworn an oath before god to support and to defend that constitution. we must now act in obedience to that oath. >> and so that was a joint address to congress a week after john lewis was nearly beaten to death marching for voting rights in selma. and so a year after the freedom summer and its martyrs too, there was lbj proposing the voting rights act of 1965, and it passed, and he signed it into law. and the voting rights act did not make it illegal to keep people from voting based on their race. that was already il...