Civil Rights Act
Some of you listening to this may have seen the film Selma. It depicted Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders in the fight for voting rights. The violence that took place at Selma helped lead to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Parts of the film were controversial: historians objected to how it depicted President Lyndon Johnson as less supportive of civil rights than he actually was. The national civil rights movement didn’t just begin with the Montgomery Bus Boycott or the March on Washington, of course. African Americans had been seeking their constitutional rights f...
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